At dawn on Thursday, illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers set fire to a Palestinian home in Birin village, southeast of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank’s southern region.
Farid Burqan, head of the Birin Village Council, stated that the colonizers burned down the home of Mohammad Azzam Abu Hamad, causing a gas cylinder to explode and resulting in extensive damage to the house.
Burqan noted that the home sheltered ten family members, who had already been displaced from their property at night in previous months due to repeated colonizer attacks and threats against families living on the outskirts of the village.
He emphasized that the colonizers’ persistent assaults, breaking doors and windows and attempting to set homes ablaze, aim to forcibly displace Palestinian residents, facilitating further colonial expansion in the area.
In related news, Israeli soldiers forces stormed a village near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, demolishing a Palestinian home and abducting twelve individuals.
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.
