Ten Palestinians were injured on Wednesday evening during a large-scale attack by illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers on the town of Deir Dibwan, east of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank’s central part.
Dozens of colonizers broke into Palestinian homes in the town, setting fire to three houses, including the well-known “Abu Shehada estate” near the western entrance.
They also burned vehicles, horse stables, and sheep pens, while trapping residents inside their homes.
The Israeli assailants also prevented young men, as well as ambulances and firefighters from reaching the area.
Additionally, the colonizers hurled stones at passing Palestinian vehicles on the main road bordering the town.
Medical sources confirmed that ten Palestinians were injured, including two individuals who were transported to a hospital, while the others received treatment at a local medical center.
The Palestinian Red Crescent society reported that its teams treated two injuries resulting from physical assault by colonizers in Deir Dibwan, both of whom were hospitalized. Additionally, medical teams provided care for five other injuries at a medical facility in the town.
Furthermore, colonizers from an illegal outpost established on the lands of Deir Dibwan and Burqa also attacked homes and properties in the neighboring village of Beitin, attempting to set fire to several residences.
Meanwhile, Israeli occupation forces sealed off the entrance to the town, preventing residents from entering or leaving, and did not attempt to stop the colonizers.
Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governor, Laila Ghannam, condemned the attacks, describing them as terrorist attacks targeting peaceful civilians in Deir Dibwan and Beitin.
She denounced the destruction and arson of homes and properties, highlighting that such assaults reflect the criminal mindset of the colonial system.
During a field visit to Deir Dibwan, Ghannam met with the injured at the town’s medical center, surveying the devastation caused by the colonizers’ assault.
She emphasized that the attacks are part of a systematic policy in which roles are distributed between the Israeli army and colonizers to terrorize citizens and forcibly remove them from their lands.
Ghannam called on the international community, including political and human rights institutions, to fulfill its responsibilities and take serious action to pressure Israel to halt colonizer attacks, ethnic cleansing, and mass killings.
She reaffirmed that despite these acts of terror, the Palestinian people will remain steadfast on their land, holding onto their rights, and defending them against Israeli occupation forces and colonizer militias.
In related news, Israeli colonizers established a new illegal outpost on Palestinian-owned land in the village of Taybeh, east of Ramallah.
The colonizers built the outpost on the ruins of homes belonging to a Palestinian family that had been forcibly displaced about a year ago following a series of violations and arson attacks by the colonizers.
The Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission reported that during May alone, colonizers attempted to establish 15 new illegal outposts across the occupied West Bank, primarily agricultural and pastoral settlements.
The commission noted that these new outposts were spread across several governorates; Ramallah and Al-Bireh: 6 outposts, Salfit, Tubas, and Bethlehem, 2 outposts each, Jericho and Nablus. 1 outpost each
On Tuesday, illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers invaded a Bedouin community near Jericho, uprooted trees near Ramallah, and attacked Palestinian cars near Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank.
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.
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”.
