The Jerusalem Governorate said that the killing of Nasrallah Mohammad Jamal Abu Siyam, 19, from the village of Mikhmas northeast of Jerusalem, who succumbed to critical wounds after being shot by illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers during an attack on the village Wednesday afternoon, constitutes a full‑fledged crime carried out by organized colonizer groups operating under the protection and supervision of Israeli occupation forces.
In a statement issued Wednesday night, the Governorate described the attack as part of a dangerous escalation in colonizer violence across the occupied West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem.
These assaults, it noted, increasingly involve the use of live ammunition and direct gunfire at Palestinian residents, as well as the burning of homes, attacks on vehicles and property, and the seizure of land under fabricated colonial pretexts.
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The Governorate said that Mikhmas has faced repeated, organized assaults, including livestock theft, incursions into the outskirts of the village under military protection, and nighttime stone‑throwing intended to terrorize residents.
It also referenced earlier attacks on the nearby Khallet as‑Sidra Bedouin community, where colonizers burned and vandalized homes and structures in a systematic effort to undermine Palestinian presence and impose new colonial realities on the ground.
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The statement stressed that the growing violence of paramilitary colonizer groups, encouraged and supported by fanatic figures within the Israeli government, particularly ministers Itamar Ben‑Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, reflects an official policy that provides political and security cover for these attacks.
This, it said, forms part of a coordinated strategy aimed at accelerating de facto annexation and seizing additional Palestinian land.
The Governorate called on the international community to uphold its legal and moral responsibilities by enforcing UN Security Council Resolution 2334, compelling Israel to halt all colonial activities, dismantle armed colonizer groups, confiscate their weapons, end their funding, and hold those responsible for these crimes accountable.
It also urged the inclusion of colonial‑terror organizations on international terrorism lists and the imposition of sanctions on the entire colonial apparatus and those who support and protect it.
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.
