On Tuesday, illegal Israeli colonizers attacked and caused damage to Palestinian cars, and bulldozed and uprooted Palestinian lands in Hebron, Salfit, and Nablus, in the occupied West Bank.
On Tuesday evening, the paramilitary colonizers attacked a Palestinian house in the village of Al-Karmel, east of Yatta, south of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank’s southern part.
Media sources reported that settlers attacked the home of Adnan Abu Tabeekh, destroying its contents, uprooting several trees, and damaging his crops.
Residents of the villages and communities in Masafer Yatta and its eastern areas are increasingly fearful of escalating attacks by the Israeli settlers on their homes and properties.
In a related incident, the paramilitary colonizers uprooted Palestinian lands in the Wad Qawawees area in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.
Eyewitnesses said the colonizers plowed and uprooted land belonging to the Jabarin and Abu Arram families, where Israeli soldiers have been preventing the landowners from accessing and cultivating these lands for months.
In Salfit, in the central West Bank, Israeli colonizers hurled stones at Palestinian vehicles at the northern entrance of Yasuf village, east of the city, causing damage before closing the village entrance.
In Nablus, in the northern West Bank, paramilitary colonizers invaded Palestinian lands in Qaryout village, south of the city, before bulldozing and uprooting a mountainous area planted with olive trees and another flat area estimated at 15 dunams in the Khirbet Sorra area, southeast of the village.
Human rights activist Bashar Al-Qaryouti stated that this is the first time the colonizers have bulldozed lands in this specific area, raising concerns among residents about potential colonial expansion, especially since the area is located between the illegal colonies of Shvut Rachel and Shilo, built on stolen Palestinian lands.
The village frequently experiences invasions and violations by the colonizers, who are often accompanied by Israeli occupation soldiers.
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”.
