On Sunday, illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers, accompanied by Israeli occupation soldiers, bulldozed several plots of land belonging to Palestinian residents in the village of Umm Safa, northwest of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank’s central part.
Marwan Sabah, head of the village council, reported that colonizers deployed bulldozers to raze approximately 40 dunams in the Jabal al-Ras area, east of Umm Safa.
He added that hundreds of dunams in the southern region of the village had already been illegally confiscated for the establishment of a colonialist outpost, aimed at confiscating more lands for grazing purposes for the colonizers.
Sabah warned that the colonizers appear to be implementing a broader scheme to forcibly displace village residents and erect a sprawling colonial encampment.
This illegal colonialist outpost would connect with two nearby colonies, intensifying the threat of more land confiscation and demographic erasure.
In related news, Israeli soldiers invaded the town of ar-Ram, north of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, and fired many gas bombs and concussion grenades, wounding a young man with a gas bomb in the back, and causing many to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation.
Also Sunday, a group of illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers carried out an attack on an agricultural structure belonging to Palestinian citizen Nimir Ezzat in the northwestern area of Kafr ad-Deek, west of Salfit in the occupied West Bank’s central part.
Early Friday morning, at least 30 Palestinian families were forcibly displaced from the Arab al-Mleihat Bedouin community, situated at the end of the Mu’arrajat road northwest of Jericho, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank.
Last Monday, illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers set fire to hundreds of dunams of Palestinian farmland and seized nearly one hundred head of livestock in the town of Sa’ir, northeast of Hebron in the occupied West Bank’s southern part.
Also Monday, a group of illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers, accompanied by Israeli soldiers, invaded Palestinian olive orchards in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, and destroyed more than 150 olive saplings.
On Monday morning, a young Palestinian man sustained injuries after being deliberately rammed by an illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizer near the town of Salfit in the central part of occupied West Bank.
On Saturday, Israeli paramilitary colonizers attacked Palestinian towns and villages throughout the West Bank – part of a trend of increasing colonizer violence against the indigenous Palestinian communities in the West Bank.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has warned that rising settler violence in the occupied West Bank is intensifying the forced displacement of Palestinians and severely restricting their access to essential resources.
According to OCHA, Israeli settlers have carried out approximately 740 attacks during the first half of this year alone. These assaults have resulted in the injury of at least 340 Palestinians and caused widespread property damage.
The office emphasized that the spike in settler-led violence poses a serious threat to the livelihoods and physical safety of Palestinian communities, further compounding an already fragile humanitarian situation.
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.”Early Friday morning, at least 30 Palestinian families were forcibly displaced from the Arab al-Mleihat Bedouin community, situated at the end of the Mu’arrajat road northwest of Jericho, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank.
