An illegal Israeli colonizer attempted to ram a Palestinian woman on Monday morning in the village of Al‑Maniya, southeast of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, as she was crossing the main road in the village.
The woman narrowly escaped injury, while the colonizer fled the scene immediately after the attempted attack.
A surveillance video shows the colonizer driving a four‑wheel vehicle and accelerating toward the woman before swerving in a clear attempt to strike her.
The incident comes amid a sharp escalation in colonizer and Israeli military violations across the area, particularly in the villages southeast of Bethlehem, including Kisan, where recent attacks have targeted Palestinian homes and included the pursuit of shepherds in open fields.
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In a separate development, Israeli occupation forces invaded the town of Tuqu’, southeast of Bethlehem in the southern West Bank, and deployed around the municipal area.
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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.
