On Monday, illegal paramilitary colonizers attacked a Palestinian family in their residential van in the countryside of Tuqu’ village, east of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank.
The head of Kisan Village Council, Mousa Obeyyat, said the colonizers came from the illegal Maali Amos colony, built on stolen Palestinian land in the village, and attacked the RV of Ibrahim Oweida Sawarka, 38.
He added that the colonizers attacked Sawarka’s family, wounding his wife, and punctured the tires of his tractor in addition to demolishing tents.
In related news, the paramilitary Israeli colonizers invaded Palestinian lands in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank’s southern part, demolished two sheds, and a barn, and broke and cut trees, in addition to chasing farmers and shepherds.
In addition, the colonizers shot two Palestinians, including a child, and burned a vehicle and a citizen’s home in the town of Asira al-Qibliya, southwest of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.
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”.
