The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that its medical teams treated five members of a Palestinian family—father, mother, and three young daughters—after they were assaulted by illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers in the al‑Auja area near Jericho, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank, shortly after midnight.
Emergency crews provided first aid at the scene before transferring the injured family to hospital care. Their conditions were described as ranging from moderate to serious.
This attack comes amid a surge in colonizer violence against Palestinian civilians and property across the Jordan Valley, prompting renewed calls for international protection for residents.
In a related development, Israeli occupation forces invaded Jericho at dawn on Tuesday. Witnesses said six military vehicles entered the city from the “Yellow Gate” military roadblock east of Jericho and advanced toward Amman Street, where soldiers invaded a home. Troops fired sound grenades in the street, though no clashes were reported.
According to Eid Barahma, director of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society in Jericho and the Jordan Valley, the occupation army abducted Omar Imran Muhammad Amr, a member of Fatah’s regional leadership, during the incursion.
Furthermore, Israeli colonizers chased Palestinian shepherds while they grazed their livestock near their tents in Khirbet al‑Hadidiya, in the northern Jordan Valley.
Human rights activist Aref Daraghma reported that colonizers chased the shepherds across the pastures and attempted to steal some of their animals.
On Tuesday morning, a group of Israeli paramilitary colonizers invaded Shallal Al-Auja village, and brough their livestock to graze on Palestinian lands.
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.
