Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out several attacks on Palestinian communities across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, including in Nablus in the northern West Bank, occupied Jerusalem, Ramallah in the central West Bank, and Qalqilia in the northwestern West Bank, while Israeli forces fired tear gas at Palestinians who intercepted the attacks.
Local sources reported that colonizers attacked the village of Jaloud, southeast of Nablus, where groups of armed colonizers stormed the al‑Wadi area. Palestinian youths attempted to repel the attack, leading to confrontations in the area.
In a separate incident, colonizers set fire to agricultural structures in the Shmeis area near al‑Wadi al‑A’waj, north‑east of occupied Jerusalem.
The al‑Baydar Organization for Bedouin Rights said the fire caused material damage to several agricultural facilities and properties.
Earlier on Wednesday, dozens of colonizers, accompanied by Israeli occupation forces, invaded the village of al‑Mughayyer, northeast of Ramallah in the central West Bank.
Marzouq Abu Na’im, deputy head of the village council, said colonizers attacked the southern area of the village and grazed their livestock on privately owned Palestinian land.
He added that Israeli soldiers spread throughout several neighborhoods, firing large quantities of tear gas between Palestinian homes. No injuries were reported.
In the northwestern West Bank, colonizers invaded Palestinian‑owned land in the Arab al‑Khuli community, east of Kafr Thulth, south of Qalqilia.
Jihad Odah, head of the Kafr Thulth Municipality, said colonizers entered the area with their livestock and issued direct threats to the ten residents living there, demanding they leave their land.
He added that colonizers forcibly expelled resident Kayed Khouli from his home at gunpoint to allow their livestock to graze on the land. Odah noted that this was not the first attack on the community.
Colonizers assaulted residents last week and vandalized their property, part of ongoing efforts to seize the area and force Palestinians to abandon their land.
The Arab al‑Khuli community, located in an area known as Khirbet ‘Oyoun Kafr Qara’, is surrounded by eight Israeli colonies: Ma’ale Shomron and Shavei Menachem to the north; El Matan and Ganat Shomron to the east; Nofeiim, Yakir, Immanuel, and Karnei Shomron to the south. The only remaining access point for residents is the western route leading to the town of Kafr Thulth.
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.
