Illegal Israeli colonizers attacked, Saturday, the employees and workers of the Thaher Al-Abed Village Council in the Ya’bad area, west of Jenin in the occupied West Bank’s northern part, detained them, and held their equipment to prevent them from preparing agricultural roads, before forcing them to leave at gunpoint.
Tareq Amarna, the head of Thaher Al-Abed Village Council, said a group of paramilitary colonists, who established an illegal colonial outpost in a mountainous area near the village, attacked workers and the deputy head of the council, Kamal Amarna.
He added that the colonizers detained them after preventing them at gunpoint from working on a project to build agricultural roads with a length of 4 km in the village and pave them, in addition to preventing the villagers from reaching the area.
Amarna pointed out that the paving project is implemented through the Directorate of Agriculture and the Land Research Center, with funding from the Dutch government.
He stated that the colonizers continue their violations and assaults in an attempt to prevent farmers from entering their lands, as they carry out acts of sabotage and destruction of citizens’ property, agricultural facilities, and the seizure of their equipment, as happened recently in the village of Farasin and Khirbet al-Mikhel.
In related news, a group of colonizers attacked Mohammad Yacoub Rayyan while working on his land in the Khallet Hassan area, west of the central West Bank city of Salfit, and tried to stab him.
The colonizers also attacked farmers in Ein Quinya village, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and fired many live rounds, forcing them to leave the area.
On Friday, the colonizers carried out several attacks against Palestinian citizens in various areas of the occupied West Bank.
Also Friday, a group of fanatic paramilitary Israeli colonizers invaded Palestinian lands near Nablus, in the occupied West Bank’s northern part, and set up a new colonialist outpost.
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”.
