On Thursday, Israeli soldiers demolished a Palestinian home in the Bedouin area in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank’s southern part.
Media sources said the army, accompanied by bulldozers invaded the Um Qissa area and demolished a Palestinian home under the pretext of being built without a permit.
The sources added that the home, owned by Ali Al-Atimeen, was about 160 square meters and housed eleven Palestinians, including many children.
The sources also confiscated several Palestinian cars before withdrawing from the area.
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While the illegal Israeli colonizers continue the theft of Palestinian lands and the establishment of their illegal outposts on the stolen lands, the occupation authority, and its administrative branch, the “Civil Administration Office,” continue to deny the Palestinians the right to build on their lands.
All of Israel’s colonies in the occupied West Bank, including those in and around occupied East Jerusalem, are illegal under International Law, the Fourth Geneva Convention in addition to various United Nations and Security Council resolutions. They also constitute war crimes under International Law.
Article 49, sixth paragraph of the 1949 Geneva Convention IV provides: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.”
Article 85(4)(a) of the 1977 Additional Protocol I provides that “the transfer by the Occupying Power of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies” is a grave breach of the Protocol.
Under Article 8(2)(b)(viii) of the 1998 ICC Statute, “the transfer, directly or indirectly, by the Occupying Power of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies” constitutes a war crime in international armed conflicts.
