Dozens of illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers forcibly seized a Palestinian home on Sunday evening in the Old City of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
Local sources confirmed that armed colonizers took control of a single-room property and its surrounding area in the Jabari neighborhood.
The home belongs to Aka Abdel-Majid Jabari, a Palestinian resident of the area. Israeli flags were raised over the property following the takeover.
This incident follows a similar raid earlier this month, when colonizers, escorted by Israeli occupation forces, occupied a Palestinian home belonging to the Nasr family near the old municipal building.
That attack was accompanied by military deployment and street closures, further restricting Palestinian movement in the city.
The recent wave of home seizures reflects a broader campaign of colonizer-led expansion in Hebron, where armed groups operate with impunity under military protection.
The Old City, already fragmented by military roadblocks and fortified colonialist compounds and outposts, remains a focal point of displacement and demographic engineering.
Rights monitors and eyewitnesses describe these colonizers as organized, heavily armed, and strategically targeting properties in historically Palestinian neighborhoods.
Their actions are part of a systematic effort to alter the cultural and territorial landscape of Hebron, often through intimidation, forced evictions, and land grabs.
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.
Since the beginning of this year, 207 Palestinians, including 39 children and 6 women were killed by Israeli fire, among them 9 who were killed by illegal paramilitary colonizers.
Since October 7, 2023, Israeli soldiers and paramilitary colonizers have killed 1,042 Palestinians, including 212 children, 22 women, 17 elders, 2 medics, 1 journalist, and 32 killed by paramilitary colonizers in the West Bank; 294 in Jenin, 213 in Tulkarem, 129 in Nablus, 94 in Tubas, 93 in Hebron, 73 in Ramallah, 57 in Jerusalem, 39 in Qalqilia, 30 in Bethlehem, 13 in Jericho and 7 in Salfit.
