On Friday, a group of illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers destroyed solar energy system serving Palestinian residents in the Al-Maita community of the northern Jordan Valley, in the occupied West Bank.
Local sources reported that colonizers invaded the area and vandalized solar panels connected to the community’s modest electricity grid.
These systems are the primary source of power for residents, who remain deprived of basic infrastructure due to Israeli restrictions and constant violations.
Palestinian communities across the northern Jordan Valley rely on solar energy amid a complete absence of state-provided utilities. The destruction of these systems further deepens the humanitarian crisis in the area.
The attack is part of a broader escalation in colonizers’ violence, which includes physical assaults on civilians, theft and killing of livestock, and the obstruction of grazing access. These sustained aggressions have forced multiple families to abandon their homes.
On Thursday, groups of Israeli colonizers launched coordinated assaults across multiple areas of the occupied West Bank, wounding civilians, uprooting agricultural land, and attempting livestock theft, further intensifying their serious violations under military protection.
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”.
