On Saturday, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked Palestinian olive harvesters in the town of Aqraba, south of Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, injuring three civilians.
Local sources said the victims, residents of the nearby town of Qabalan, sustained minor injuries after being assaulted while harvesting olives in the Wadi al-Hajj Isa area of Aqraba’s agricultural lands.
The attackers were armed, had dogs with them, and carried sharp tools, forcing the harvesters to abandon their land under threat.
The colonizers attacked the Palestinians causing injuries to their heads, faces and other parts of their bodies.
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Across the occupied West Bank, olive harvesters continue to face systematic assaults by both Israeli soldiers and colonizers, who obstruct access to farmland and prevent Palestinians from collecting their crops, in addition to cutting and uprooting trees, destroying agricultural sheds and supplies.
On Friday, illegal Israeli colonizers carried out a series of attacks against Palestinians and their property in the governorates of Ramallah and Nablus, in the central and northern parts of the West Bank.
Also Friday, the colonizers assaulted Palestinian farmers and international solidarity activists in the town of Kafr Malik, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central part, preventing them from reaching their agricultural land.
Colonization & Wall Resistance Commission said its field teams have documented 158 attacks on olive harvesters since the beginning of the current season. Of these, 17 were carried out by Israeli soldiers, while 141 were perpetrated by illegal colonizers.
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, prohibit the destruction of civilian property and classify pillage as a war crime.
