On Tuesday, Israeli occupation forces demolished two Palestinian structures and a solar panel room in the village of Arab Al-Mleihat, northwest of Jericho in the occupied West Bank’s northeastern part.
Hassan Mleihat, the general supervisor of the “Al-Baydar” organization for defending Bedouin rights, stated in a press release that the occupation forces, accompanied by representatives from the “Regional Council of Settlements,” and paramilitary colonizers from nearby colonial outposts, carried out the demolitions.
The structures, owned by Jamal Mleihat, included one used as a residence and another as a sheep pen.
Mleihat added that the occupation’s machinery destroyed solar panels that provided electricity to the residents and were essential for their daily lives.
Like other Bedouin communities in the Jordan Valley, Arab Al-Mleihat faces ongoing escalation from the occupation and its colonizers, including demolitions, illegal annexation of lands, and restrictions on construction and infrastructure development.
On Tuesday evening, illegal paramilitary colonizers vandalized Palestinian-owned crops in Khirbet al-Mafqara, a hamlet within Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank’s southern part.
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”.
