On Wednesday, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked Palestinian olive harvesters in the town of Huwwara, south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank’s northern part.
Sources in the Huwwara Municipality reported that the paramilitary colonizers, led by the guard of the “Yitzhar” illegally colony, attacked farmers in the Al-Lahaf area of Huwwara, while they were picking their olive trees.
They added that the colonizers injured two Palestinians, Saqer Khaled Odah and Jamil Fayez Odah, who sustained bruises and cuts, before the medics transferred to them Huwwara Emergency Center.
The Israeli assailants also seized olive-picking equipment after assaulting the farmers and forcing them to leave their olive orchards.
On Monday, a group of fanatic, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers, stole olive harvest in the Wadi al-Rababa neighborhood of Silwan, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank.
While the attacks by the colonizers are constant across the occupied West Bank, they tend to witness a sharp escalation during the olive harvest season in occupied Palestine.
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 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” It also prohibits the “individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory.”
