At dawn on Friday, illegal Israeli colonizers carried out a surge of assaults against Palestinians and their belongings in multiple parts of the occupied West Bank.
A video circulated early this morning showed colonizers carrying out a brutal attack against residents in Khirbet al‑Markaz, located in Masafer Yatta south of Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank.
In Nablus, in northern West Bank, colonizers set fire to six tourism villas under construction on Mount Tarouja, between the villages of Al‑Lubban al‑Sharqiya and Ammuriya.
The properties belong to citizen Khalil Abu Sunaina and several partners. The guard of the site sustained burns while attempting to extinguish the blaze.
Colonizers also attacked a plant nursery in the village of Deir Sharaf, west of Nablus, owned by Nasser Nasser, destroying and damaging its crops.
In Ramallah, in central West Bank, the colonizers burned an agricultural room in the village of Abu Falah, north of the city, and scrawled racist slogans on the walls.
Meanwhile in Bethlehem, several residents suffered from suffocation after Israeli occupation forces and colonizers assaulted the village of Kisan, east of the city.
On Wednesday morning, Illegal Israeli colonizers vandalized a Palestinian vehicle in the village of Taybeh, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central part, and looted construction materials from a home under construction in the northern town of Turmus Ayya.
On Wednesday evening, Israeli occupation forces invaded the al-Hathroura community, storming several tents and abducting three Palestinian residents from the Arab al-Ara’ra.
Just days earlier, a group of colonizers, accompanied by Israeli occupation forces, demolished several homes in the community, assaulted residents and abducted three young Palestinian men.
The Bedouin community has faced repeated attacks aimed at forcing them to leave, clearing the way for full control of their land.
On Thursday evening, Israeli colonizers carried out a number of attacks against Palestinian citizens in the governorates of Qalqilia, Nablus, and Ramallah.
According to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Authority, colonizers carried out 766 attacks in October alone, concentrated in the governorates of Ramallah and al-Bireh, Nablus, and Hebron.
These repeated assaults highlight a systematic campaign of serious violations designed to dismantle Palestinian livelihoods, intimidate communities, and entrench illegal colonial expansion in violation of international law.
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.
