Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers seized the belongings of a Palestinian resident in the Khallet al‑Sidra Bedouin community near the village of Mikhmas, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, on Sunday, and vandalized additional property belonging to local families.
The Jerusalem Governorate said colonizers took items owned by residents and damaged others during their incursion into the community.
The attack is part of a sustained campaign of colonizer violence targeting both Mikhmas and the nearby Khallet al‑Sidra community, carried out under the protection of Israeli occupation forces.
Residents report that these assaults routinely include attacking Palestinians, firing live rounds toward homes and tents, destroying, or burning residential structures, sheds, barns, and vehicles, and sabotaging solar panels and surveillance cameras—often seizing some of the equipment before withdrawing.
Khallet al‑Sidra lies roughly 800 meters northeast of Mikhmas and is home to 16 families from the Ka’abna and Jahalin tribes, totaling 59 residents, about half of them children.
The community relies almost entirely on livestock herding for its livelihood, making it especially vulnerable to colonizer attacks that target both property and animals.
The assault on Sunday adds to a growing pattern of pressure aimed at forcing Bedouin communities in the Jerusalem periphery to abandon their land, clearing the area for further colonial expansion.
In related news, eleven Palestinian families from the Khirbet Yarza area, east of Tubas in the northern Jordan Valley, dismantled their homes and tents on Sunday and began leaving the community after a sharp escalation in attacks by illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers.
On Sunday before dawn, a group of illegal Israeli colonizers killed two Palestinian men and injured others, after storming the village of Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah in the central part of the occupied West Bank. A third man died after suffering the toxic effects of tear gas inhalation, when at least five others sustained injuries.
The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the slain men as Thaer Farouq Hamayel, 24, and Fares Jawdat Hamayel, 57, adding that the men were killed after Israeli settlers shot them both in the head with live ammunition after infiltrating Abu Falah village.
On Saturday, Israeli colonizers killed 28-year-old Amir Mohammad Shanaran and critically injured his brother during an attack in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank.
In related news, Israeli colonizers shot and killed two Palestinian brothers and wounded three others on Monday, after invading the village of Qaryout, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.
Mohammad Taha Abdel-Majeed Muammar, 51, was killed after settlers shot him in the head, while his brother Fahim Taha Abdul Majeed Muammar, 48, was killed after he sustained a live gunshot wound to the pelvis.
On Tuesday, armed paramilitary settlers shot two Palestinian young men with live ammunition after infiltrating the town of Sa’ir, northeast of Hebron.
Since the beginning of the Israeli military aggression against the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, occupation forces and settlers have killed 1124 Palestinian citizens in the occupied West Bank, including 232 children and 24 women.
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.
