Early on Tuesday dawn, a group of illegal paramilitary colonizers cut Palestinian olive trees and cased damage to cars, in two areas in the Nablus governorate, , in the occupied West Bank’s northern part.
Media sources said the colonizer invaded a Palestinian orchard in the town of Aqraba, south of Nablus, and cut many olive trees, belonging to Palestinian farmer Mahmoud Khalil Diriyeh.
In a separate attack, colonizers stormed the nearby village of Jurish, southeast of Nablus, and smashed the windows of three Palestinian-owned vehicles, inflicting significant damage.
On Monday evening, the colonizers hurled stones at Palestinian cars on a section of the main Ramallah-Nablus Road, northeast of Ramallah, causing damage to several cars.
On Monday, a wave of violent assaults by illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers swept across multiple Palestinian towns and villages, targeting civilians, agricultural infrastructure, and essential services in a coordinated escalation spanning Nablus, Jericho, and Ramallah.
The assaults form part of a broader, systematic campaign targeting Palestinian and their livelihoods, often carried out under the protection of the Israeli occupation and in the absence of international accountability for ongoing violations of international law.
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 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits collective punishment and acts of terror against civilian populations.
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”.
Articles 53 and 147, which prohibit the destruction of civilian property and classify pillage as a war crime.
