Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers invaded the area surrounding Palestinian homes in Khirbet Samra village, in the northern Jordan Valley on the occupied West Bank, late Wednesday, carrying out provocative actions and throwing stones toward livestock enclosures, according to local sources.
Residents reported that the colonizers moved around the outskirts of the community’s homes and engaged in deliberate harassment aimed at intimidating families living in the area.
Khirbet Samra has been experiencing a sharp escalation in colonizer attacks since the beginning of the month, particularly after colonizers installed a tent near residents’ homes as the nucleus of a new pastoral colonialist outpost.
The tent has since become a base for daily assaults that include attacking homes, intimidating residents, chasing shepherds, and destroying agricultural crops.
Earlier on Wednesday, the colonizers destroyed Palestinian agricultural land on in two separate areas, releasing cattle onto wheat and barley fields in Khirbet Samra, and cutting more than 70 olive trees along with dozens of evergreen forest trees in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.
These ongoing violations form part of a broader pattern of colonizer expansion and pressure on Palestinian communities across the northern Jordan Valley and other parts of the West Bank, where families face continuous threats, land seizures, and attempts to force them from their homes.
On Sunday, Israeli force issued a military order mandating the forced displacement of a Bedouin community in al‑Mughayyir east of Ramallah in the central West Bank.
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.
