Earlier Saturday and late Friday night, groups of illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out coordinated attacks on two Palestinian villages near Nablus and Ramallah, in the northern and central parts of the occupied West Bank, burning vehicles and an agricultural room.
Media sources said many colonizers infiltrated the village of Awarta, south of Nablus, and attacked Palestinian homes and cars.
The colonizers burned several vehicles and attempted to torch homes before fleeing toward their illegal outpost. Local residents rushed to extinguish the fires.
On Friday night, illegal paramilitary colonizers infiltrated Abu Falah village, northeast of Ramallah, and set fire to an agricultural room.
After Palestinians worked to extinguish the blaze and repel the colonizers’ attack, Israeli occupation soldiers invaded the area and fired live rounds at the residents.
The attacked property is located near an illegal colonial outpost that was reestablished on Palestinian land after Israeli authorities had previously evacuated it.
On Friday, Israeli paramilitary colonizers carried out a series of coordinated attacks across the occupied West Bank on Friday, targeting communities in Nablus in the northern West Bank, Bethlehem in the southern West Bank, and Ramallah in the central West Bank, burning vehicles and agricultural structures, assaulting civilians, and obstructing access to essential infrastructure.
At dawn Friday, the colonizers burned two Palestinian vehicles during an attack on homes south of Hebron, while Israeli occupation forces detonated the doors of several commercial shops and invaded homes in nearby towns, in the southern occupied West Bank.
At dawn Friday, Israeli colonizers burned two Palestinian vehicles during an attack on homes south of Hebron, while Israeli occupation forces detonated the doors of several commercial shops and invaded homes in nearby towns, in the southern occupied West Bank.
On Thursday, Israeli forces abducted a Palestinian man, while Israeli colonizers destroyed agricultural fields and fruit orchards in several areas of the Hebron governorate.
Also, a Palestinian man was injured on Thursday evening after Israeli colonizers attacked his vehicle between the village of Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya, east of Nablus in northern West Bank, and the city of Salfit, in the central occupied West Bank.
The Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission stated that these attacks form part of a systematic effort to expand colonies and forcibly restrict Palestinian access to agricultural lands across Hebron and the South Hebron Hills, where colonizer violence continues to rise under direct military protection.
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.
