On Monday, Israeli soldiers cut and uprooted dozens of olive trees in Husan village, west of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, to prepare for a segregated road.
The director of Husan Village Council, Rami Hamamra, said the soldiers bulldozed fifteen Dunams of farmlands and uprooted at least 150 olive trees near the western entrance of Husan.
Hamamra added that the uprooted trees and lands are owned by Ibrahim Jaber Hamamra, his brother Mustafa, Ibrahim Ali Sabateen, Sharif Mousa Sabateen, Khaled Abdullah Sha’er, Sa’adi Sha’er and his brother Saud.
He also said that the bulldozing and uprooting of the Palestinian lands is part of Israel’s plan to expand the segregated colonialist settler’s road #60, which extends through the western areas of Bethlehem.
In related news, paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked a Palestinian home and several cars between the villages of Burin and Madama, south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank’s northern part.
Israel’s colonies in the occupied Palestinian territories, including in and around the occupied capital, Jerusalem, are illegal under International Law, the Fourth Geneva Convention, in addition to various United Nations and Security Council resolutions.
UN Security Council and UN General Assembly resolutions have condemned Israeli policies in all its forms, in the occupied Palestinian territories, whether it be the seizure of Palestinian land for various military purposes, the construction of illegal Israeli colonies, or the creation of bypass roads.
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states that the occupying power [Israel] is forbidden from transferring any part of its civilian population onto the land on which it occupies [Palestine].
