Israeli occupation authorities issued a military order on Sunday morning mandating the forced displacement of a Bedouin community in al‑Mughayyir east of Ramallah in the central West Bank, and abducted three international solidarity activists.
Local sources said Israeli forces invaded the Abu Najah al‑Ka’abna Bedouin community in the al‑Khalayel area to the south, delivered a written order to the residents, and instructed the 40 Palestinians living there to leave within 48 hours, declaring the area a “military zone.”
The sources added that Israeli forces also abducted three international peace activists of different nationalities who were present in the community before withdrawing from the area.
They noted that the Shalal al‑Auja Bedouin community north of Jericho in the eastern West Bank was likewise subjected to a full forced displacement after years of continuous violations, culminating on Saturday with the expulsion of the last three remaining families. This completed the removal of all approximately 120 Palestinian families who once lived there.
The forced displacement of Shalal al‑Auja did not occur suddenly or in a single event; rather, it unfolded in successive stages, as families were compelled to abandon their homes and tents one after another under sustained colonial violence and a systematic campaign of intimidation designed to break their resilience and force them into leaving.
In related news, Israeli colonizers attacked a Palestinian home in the eastern outskirts of Far’ata, east of Qalqilia in the northwestern West Bank.
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.
