Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers set a Palestinian vehicle and rooms on fire and smashed the windows of two others on Friday evening during an attack on the outskirts of the town of Shuqba, west of Ramallah in the central West Bank.
The colonizers targeted the area surrounding an agricultural room on the western side of Shuqba, where several residents had been spending time outdoors.
The attackers torched one vehicle and shattered the windows of two others before withdrawing from the area as Israeli occupation forces simultaneously invaded the vicinity.
The colonizers also burn several Palestinian agricultural rooms, and hurled stones at several cars in the village.
Friday’s attack in Shuqba reflects a continued pattern of escalating colonizer violence, often carried out under military protection, targeting Palestinian communities, vehicles, agricultural structures, and private property across the occupied West Bank.
Earlier, the colonizers carried out a series of attacks across the occupied West Bank on Friday, burning a mosque, assaulting residents, attempting to steal livestock, vandalizing property, and expanding their presence in multiple areas under the protection of Israeli occupation forces.
According to a report issued by the Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission, a total of 1,637 violations were recorded during the month of April against Palestinians, their land, and their property.
The report stated that Israeli forces carried out 1,097 of these attacks, while colonizers were responsible for 540.
The Commission noted that the highest number of violations occurred in Nablus in the northern West Bank, which recorded 402 attacks, followed by Hebron in the southern West Bank with 340, Ramallah and al‑Bireh in the central West Bank with 312, and Bethlehem in the southern West Bank with 171.
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.
