On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers invaded Noweima village, north of Jericho in the northeastern West Bank, and demolished a Palestinian home.
Media sources said several military vehicles, including bulldozers, invaded the village after the army surrounded and isolated it.
They added that the army demolished a 120-square-meter home, owned by Nayef Njoum and his family.
The army also handed demolition orders against six additional homes, all owned by Palestinians from the extended Njoum family, in the village.
The army claimed the homes, licensed by the local town council, did not receive a permit from the so-called “Civil Administration Office,” the administrative branch of Israel’s illegal colonialist occupation of Palestine.
Various villages and communities around Jericho have been subject to escalating Israeli violations, including the demolition of homes and property, the bulldozing of farmlands, and the demolition of agricultural sheds and hothouses, amidst ongoing attempts to illegally confiscate more Palestinian lands to build and expand the illegal segregated colonies.
Paramilitary Israeli colonizers also frequently attack Palestinian villages, including Bedouin communities, and constantly force the shepherds out of grazing lands after firing at them and assaulting them.
Various villages and communities around Jericho have been subject to escalating Israeli violations, including the demolition of homes and property, the bulldozing of farmlands, and the demolition of agricultural sheds and hothouses, amidst ongoing attempts to illegally confiscate more Palestinian lands to build and expand the illegal segregated colonies.
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Israel’s home demolition policy is an illegal act of collective punishment that constitutes war crimes and violates various international and human rights treaties, including the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 for the Protection of civilian persons in times of war, as well as article 17 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, issued in 1948, and numerous United Nations resolutions.
Paramilitary Israeli colonizers also frequently attack Palestinian villages, including Bedouin communities, and constantly force the shepherds out of grazing lands after firing at them and assaulting them.
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 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”.
