On Thursday, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers invaded a Palestinian home and attacked the family near Jenin in the occupied West Bank’s northern part and stole the olive harvest near Salfit in the central part.
Media sources in Jenin stated that many paramilitary colonizers invaded Jaba’ town, south of the city, before attacking a home and burning a car.
They said the colonizers attacked the home of Aysar Saleh Khaliliyya, before assaulting his family, and added that the colonizers also burnt a car owned by Aysar’s brother Montaser.
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In the village of Yasuf, east of Salfit, paramilitary colonizers from the illegal Tapuach colony, built on stolen lands, invaded Palestinian olive orchards owned by a few families and stole the harvest.
Wael Abu Madhi, the head of Yasuf village council, said the colonizers have escalated their violations against the Palestinians and their lands, especially in areas adjacent to illegal colonies in the Salfit governorate.
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”.
