Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers chased Palestinian herders, on Monday, in Khirbet Al-Farisiyya, located in the northern Jordan Valley of the occupied West Bank, forcing them to abandon grazing lands under the protection of Israeli police.
Human rights activist Aref Daraghma reported that the colonizers pursued the herders in the Al-Farisiya area and compelled them to leave, while Israeli police were present and did not intervene.
Daraghmeh added that several colonizers began photographing Palestinian structures in the nearby Hammamat area, which has been subjected to ongoing daily violations.
The northern Jordan Valley continues to witness a sharp escalation in colonizer attacks targeting Palestinian residents and their property, including the pursuit of herders, denial of access to grazing lands, assaults on livestock, and theft.
Earlier Monday, On Monday, Israeli bulldozers continued leveling agricultural land in Beit Ur al-Fauqa, west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central region, for the second consecutive day, as part of an expansion project serving the illegal Israeli colony of Beit Horon.
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, which prohibit the destruction of civilian property and classify pillage as a war crime.
