Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked the Tibna Bedouin community near Khan al‑Ahmar, east of occupied Jerusalem, on Wednesday, assaulting residents under the protection of Israeli occupation forces.
The Jerusalem Governorate said the colonizers stormed the area and harassed Palestinian families living in the community, while the accompanying soldiers assaulted residents and abducted a young man during the attack.
Local residents reported that the colonizers invaded the community in groups, approached homes, and attempted to intimidate families, as soldiers prevented Palestinians from moving freely in the area.
The attack caused fear among residents, especially children, as the colonizers moved close to residential tents and livestock enclosures. The Bedouin community has been subjected to repeated colonizer assaults in recent weeks.
Residents said the colonizers have been carrying out nightly harassment, including using loudspeakers during the night and driving off‑road vehicles near the homes of the community, in what Palestinians describe as a deliberate campaign to pressure families to leave the area.
The residents warned that the ongoing assaults are part of a systematic effort to forcibly displace Bedouin communities east of Jerusalem, an area long targeted by Israeli settlement expansion plans.
They stressed that the repeated attacks, combined with military restrictions and the presence of armed colonizers, threaten their ability to remain on their land and maintain their livelihoods.
In related news, Israeli colonizers attacked the town of Sinjil and the nearby village of Jaljulia, north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central part, assaulting Palestinian shepherds and stealing their livestock.
Before dawn Wednesday, thousands of Israeli colonizers, accompanied by large numbers of occupation soldiers and government officials, invaded the Joseph’s Tomb area east of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.
These attacks come amid a broader escalation of colonizer violence across the occupied West Bank, where armed colonizer groups, often accompanied by Israeli officials and protected by the army, continue to target Palestinian communities with increasing frequency.
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.
