On Friday, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers invaded Kisan village, east of Bethlehem city in the occupied West Bank, and burnt a home, a car, and two barns.
Mousa Obeyyat, the head of the Kisan Village Council, said the paramilitary colonizers came from the Maale Amos colony, illegally built on stolen Palestinian lands in the village.
He added that the soldiers burnt a home, a car, and two barns, owned by Ibrahim Oweida Sawarka.
Kisan is subject to constant violations by the Israeli army and the colonizers who repeatedly burn property, attack residents, and attempt to confiscate lands.
Last Tuesday, a group of illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers attacked the family of Ibrahim Sawarka in Kisan, before stealing sheep, a car, and a tractor.
On Monday, the soldiers attacked the family, wounding Sawarka’s wife in the family’s home before Palestinian medics moved her to a hospital in Bethlehem.
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.”
