Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out coordinated attacks across the occupied West Bank at dawn Tuesday, including arson, assaults on Palestinian vehicles, land seizures, and the establishment of new colonial outposts.
In the central West Bank, colonizer groups infiltrated the village of Umm Safa, northwest of Ramallah, where they set fire to the vehicles of the village council head and his brother and spray‑painted racist anti‑Arab slogans on nearby walls. Residents reported that the attackers withdrew toward nearby colonial outposts.
East of Ramallah, colonizers established a new colonial outpost on Palestinian‑owned land in the village of Abu Falah, placing mobile structures and fencing off agricultural areas belonging to local families.
In the southern West Bank district of Hebron, colonizers attacked Palestinian vehicles near the city, damaging several cars and injuring a Palestinian woman who was later transferred to a medical center.
Additional colonizer groups threw stones at Palestinian‑owned vehicles on roads leading to Hebron. In Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, colonizers released their livestock around Palestinian homes in the Fateh Sidra area, damaging crops and grazing on privately owned land in an effort to pressure residents to leave.
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In occupied Jerusalem, colonizer groups stormed the Al‑Aqsa Mosque compound on Tuesday morning, while 363 colonizers had entered the site the previous day under heavy police protection.
In the Ramallah district, colonizers stole a Palestinian vehicle in the village of Deir Abu Mashaal and pushed it off a high area, destroying it.
Colonizer groups also assaulted a Palestinian family near the “Shilo” colony on the main road between Ramallah and Nablus.
East of the town of Taybeh, colonizers released livestock onto Palestinian‑owned lands, damaging trees, and agricultural plots.
In the Turmus Ayya plain northeast of Ramallah, colonizers placed caravans and metal structures on lands that had been bulldozed and stripped of trees.
In the northern West Bank, colonizers stormed the archaeological site in the town of Sebastia under military protection. South of Nablus, colonizers set fire to olive trees and agricultural crops in the lands of the town of Duma.
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In the southern West Bank, colonizers invaded agricultural lands in the Khirbet al‑Qat area of Beit Ummar under military protection, attacked farmers in the town of Beit Ula northwest of Hebron, installed a tent near Palestinian homes in the Khallet al‑Hums area south of Yatta, and established a new colonial outpost on land seized in the village of Sikka west of Dura.
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Across the occupied West Bank, colonizer violence continues to intensify, targeting Palestinian communities, agricultural lands, and public roads, often under the protection of Israeli occupation forces.
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.
