On Monday at dawn, an illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizer, accompanied by Israeli soldiers, assaulted Palestinian civilians and nonviolent activists in Abu Hammam hamlet, south of Al-Mughayyir village, northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
Local sources reported that the colonizer stormed Abu Hammam, accompanied by his livestock, and attacked the Abu Na’im family and several activists, with Israeli forces also involved in the assault. During the attack, the colonizer stole two mobile phones.
Days earlier, Israeli colonizers set fire to over 200 square meters of farmland in a Marj Si’ meadow between Al-Mughayyir and Abu Falah, under military protection.
Colonizers regularly target the Marj Si’ area, burning Palestinian-owned land and property, particularly after establishing a new illegal outpost in the region.
In April alone, colonizers carried out 231 acts of vandalism and theft, affecting vast areas of Palestinian land. Their actions resulted in the uprooting of 1,168 olive trees, distributed across Ramallah (530 trees), Nablus (300 trees), and Salfit (298 trees).
On Saturday, Illegal Israeli colonizers assaulted a Palestinian woman near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and assaulted others near Ramallah, in the central West Bank.
On Friday, a pregnant Palestinian woman sustained bruises and lost consciousness after being assaulted by illegal paramilitary colonizers in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank’s southern region.
Late Friday night, paramilitary Israeli colonizers assaulted two Palestinian bus drivers in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank.
In related news, a group of illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers continued the construction of a new colonialist outpost on stolen Palestinian lands in the Al-Mughayyir village, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central part.
Israeli soldiers and paramilitary colonizers have escalated their invasions and violations across the occupied West Bank, with dozens of colonizers also attacking Palestinian homes, uprooting lands, burning cars and torching farmlands, while Israeli occupation soldiers uprooted trees.
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”.
