Illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers carried out coordinated attacks early Saturday in two areas of the occupied West Bank—Masafer Yatta near Hebron in the south, and Al-Auja near Jericho in the northeast.
In Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, colonizers from the illegal outpost known as “Susiya” torched a Palestinian vehicle and vandalized property in the Wadi al-Rakhim hamlet adjacent to the village of Susya.
Anti-colonial activist Osama Makhamra told WAFA News that the attackers set fire to the car of local resident Yousef Mousa Shanaran, destroying it completely, and smashed the windows of his home.
In a separate incident, the colonizers uprooted olive saplings in the village of Umm al-Khair and released livestock near Palestinian homes, causing further damage.
Meanwhile, paramilitary Israeli colonizers stormed the Bedouin community of Shallal al-Auja, north of Jericho.
Hassan Mleihat, general coordinator of the Al-Baidar Rights Organization, reported that the settlers deliberately grazed their sheep between residential tents to provoke residents.
He described the attack as part of a broader campaign to suffocate Palestinian life in Area C and forcibly displace communities for colonial expansion.
Mleihat added that settler raids on Shalla al-Auja have intensified in recent weeks, often carried out in rotating armed groups with the aim of driving Bedouin families off their land.
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 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits collective punishment and acts of terror against civilian populations.
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”.
Articles 53 and 147, prohibit the destruction of civilian property and classify pillage as a war crime.
