On Thursday, a group of fanatic paramilitary Israeli colonizers brought their cows to graze on Palestinian lands, largely planted with olive trees, in Deir Ballout town, west of Salfit in the occupied West Bank central part.
Local sources said the colonizers invaded lands owned by a local farmer, Ra’ed Mustafa Abu Milad, in the Wadi Al-Ein area, south of Deir Ballout, and released their cows to graze.
They added that the cows grazed on saplings and other produce planted in the lands and attacked the owner while trying to push them out.
The Wadi Al-Ein area is about 3000 Dunams, as well as many agricultural areas in Salfit, that are subject to constant Israeli violence that witnessed a sharp increase since the beginning of this year.
In related news, paramilitary Israeli colonizers started preparing for a new segregated road and fenced Palestinian lands in the Northern Plains of the occupied West Bank.
The colonizers are trying to expand the illegal Shadmot Mehola colony, built on stolen Palestinian lands in 1979, by fencing and isolating about 300 Dunams of Palestinian grazing lands, which would also prevent the farmers and shepherds from Khirbat Al-Farisiyya village from reaching their lands.
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”.
