On Friday, a group of illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked farmers, before Israeli soldiers abducted a father, his son, and the father’s three brothers, in the town of Kafr ad-Dik, west of Salfit in the central part of the occupied West Bank.
Eyewitnesses said the colonizers, accompanied by Israeli soldiers, assaulted the farmers in the “Khallet al-Haramiyya” area west of the town.
They added that the colonizers stole sheep from the Palestinians and attacked them while trying to force them out of their lands.
Ala’ Ad-Dik, the mayor of Kafr ad-Dik, stated that the Israeli soldiers invaded the area, fired live ammunition, and attacked a Palestinian, Jamal Mohammad Nayef ad-Dik, before abducting him along with his brothers Assef, Naseer, Fares, and his son Abdul-Mo’ti.
Earlier, a young man, Waheeb Mahyoub Ad-Dik, 20, suffered head contusions due to an assault by the soldiers who beat him with rifles while he was on his land in the town.
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, and 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.”
