Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers burned a poultry structure on Friday in the village of Al‑Rashayda, east of Bethlehem, and assaulted a young man near Nablus.
Medical sources stated that a group of colonizers set fire to a poultry barracks belonging to Ahmad Mohammad Rashayda, completely destroying it.
The village has recently witnessed a sharp escalation in attacks by colonizers and Israeli occupation forces, including assaults on shepherds, preventing them from reaching grazing areas, and closing the village’s main entrance.
In a separate incident, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers assaulted a young man on Friday in the town of Qusra, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank.
Local sources said the colonizers invaded a home on the outskirts of Qusra and brutally beat the young man as he attempted to stop them.
In related news, Israeli occupation forces confiscated 133 dunams of privately owned Palestinian land on Friday in the governorates of Jenin and Salfit, in the northern and central parts of the occupied West Bank, citing what they call “military purposes,” in a continued escalation of land appropriation and landscape alteration.
At dawn Thursday, a group of illegal Israeli colonizers set fire to a mosque in the village of Douma, southeast of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.
On Thursday evening, Israeli colonizers burnt a warehouse owned by Einabus Village Council, south of Nablus, before dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded the area and stormed the homes of two slain Palestinians who were killed by the soldiers after an alleged car-ramming and shooting attempt near the Za’tara junction, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, on Thursday a
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.
