On Thursday morning, Israeli soldiers invaded Yatma town, south of Nablus in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, and demolished a Palestinian home.
Ahmad Snobar, the head of the Yatma Village Council, said several Israeli military vehicles, including bulldozers, invaded the town before the soldiers broke into the home of Bara’ Nasser Ismael.
Snobar added that the soldiers forced Bara’ and his family of seven to leave the property before demolishing it.
Snobar stated that the property was a two-story home, each story measuring 200 square meters.
He added that this is the second time the army has demolished Bara’s home, after previously demolishing his home in the area between Yatma and Qabalan.
It is worth mentioning that the Israeli army intends to demolish seventeen Palestinian homes in the town under the pretext of being built without permits from the so-called “Civil Administration Office,” the administrative branch of Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine.
The properties received permits from the Local Council in Yatma and were built on lands privately owned by Palestinians.
The demolition was carried amidst ongoing and escalating violations by the Israeli soldiers and the paramilitary colonialist settlers, living on stolen Palestinian lands.
On Wednesday, Israeli occupation soldiers demolished a home in the town of Silwan, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank.
Also, Israeli soldiers invaded Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank’s southern part and demolished a newly built home and an irrigation pool.
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”.
