Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers invaded the Wadi Abu Hayyat Bedouin community west of Al‑‘Auja, north of Jericho in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank, on Saturday.
The Al‑Baydar Organization for Defending Bedouin Rights reported that the colonizers stormed residents’ tents and dwellings, ransacked belongings, and caused damage to property.
Al‑Baydar added that seven Palestinian families live in the small Bedouin community, which has been subjected to repeated colonizer attacks aimed at pressuring residents to abandon the area.
Earlier Saturday and late Friday night, groups of colonizers carried out coordinated attacks on two Palestinian villages near Nablus and Ramallah, in the northern and central parts of the occupied West Bank, burning vehicles and an agricultural room.
On Friday, Israeli paramilitary colonizers carried out a series of attacks across the occupied West Bank on Friday, targeting communities in Nablus in the northern West Bank, Bethlehem in the southern West Bank, and Ramallah in the central West Bank, burning vehicles and agricultural structures, assaulting civilians, and obstructing access to essential infrastructure.
At dawn Friday, the colonizers burned two Palestinian vehicles during an attack on homes south of Hebron, while Israeli occupation forces detonated the doors of several commercial shops and invaded homes in nearby towns, in the southern occupied West Bank.
ِAlso, Israeli colonizers burned two Palestinian vehicles during an attack on homes south of Hebron, while Israeli occupation forces detonated the doors of several commercial shops and invaded homes in nearby towns, in the southern occupied West Bank.
On Thursday, Israeli forces abducted a Palestinian man, while Israeli colonizers destroyed agricultural fields and fruit orchards in several areas of the Hebron governorate.
In addition, a Palestinian man was injured on Thursday evening after Israeli colonizers attacked his vehicle between the village of Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya, east of Nablus in northern West Bank, and the city of Salfit, in the central occupied West Bank.
The Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission stated that these attacks form part of a systematic effort to expand colonies and forcibly restrict Palestinian access to agricultural lands across Hebron and the South Hebron Hills, where colonizer violence continues to rise under direct 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 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.
