Several Palestinian residents were injured, and another was abducted, on Sunday after illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers launched an attack on the village of Khirbet Imneizil in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank’s southern region.
Osama Makhamra, a media activist in Masafer Yatta, said that groups of colonizers assaulted residents while they were present on their land, beating them and attempting to seize a livestock herd belonging to the Rashid family.
Makhamra added that the assault resulted in multiple injuries among the residents before Palestinian medics treated them.
He also stated that Israeli forces arrived shortly after the attack and invaded the homes of the Rashid family, detaining several women, children, and young men.
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The soldiers then abducted Akef Rashid after assaulting him, while Mahmoud Ali Rashid sustained injuries and was transferred to Yatta Governmental Hospital for treatment.
These attacks come amid an ongoing escalation of colonizer violence targeting residents and their property across Masafer Yatta, as part of a sustained pattern of intimidation and pressure aimed at forcing Palestinian communities from their land.
On Saturday, Israeli colonizers carried out a series of coordinated attacks across the occupied West Bank on Saturday, injuring Palestinians and targeting vital civilian infrastructure from Ramallah in the central West Bank to Nablus in the northern West Bank and the Jordan Valley in the northeastern West Bank.
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.
