On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers demolished a Palestinian home in the As-Samu town, south of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank’s southern part.
Media sources said the soldiers invaded the small Khallet Al-Karsana area in the town after surrounding and isolating it.
They added that the soldiers then demolished a 150-square-meter under-construction home owned by Hasan Mohammad Al-Mahareeq.
The town and its surrounding areas have been subject to constant and escalating violations by Israeli soldiers and illegal paramilitary colonizers amidst constant attempts to illegally confiscate more Palestinian lands after forcing the residents out to build and expand the illegal Israeli colonies.
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 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.”
