On Monday, illegal Israeli colonizers attacked Palestinian farmers in Jaloud and Qaryout towns, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and prevented them from working on their lands.
Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official who monitors Israel’s illegal colonialist activities in the northern West Bank, said the colonizers attacked the farmers in the Sarrara area in Qaryout and the Khallet Al-Wista area in Jaloud.
Daghlas added that the colonizers also punctured the tires of an agricultural tractor before assaulting Mohammad Fawzi Mohammad and Salam Sami, causing cuts and bruises.
Last Saturday, the illegal Israeli colonizers cut and uprooted 258 olive saplings in the town of Kafr Ed-Deek, west of Salfit in the central West Bank.
The colonizers and soldiers also injured four Palestinians before the army abducted one in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, in the 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 Humanitarian Law.
According to Article 8(2) of the Rome Statute, ‘the transfer, directly or indirectly, by an occupying power of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies, or the deportation or transfer of all or parts of the population of the occupied territory within or outside this territory’ are unlawful.
