Early Wednesday morning, illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers set fire to parts of a Palestinian home in the town of Huwara, south of Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank.
Rana Abu Haniya, head of public relations at the Huwara Municipality, reported that a group of colonizers attacked the home of Abdul Hakim Al-Amer in the Ras Zeid area, southwest of the town.
She stated that the attackers ignited a fire in an outdoor sitting area (known locally as an Areesha), causing material damage.
Abu Haniya added that the area has witnessed ongoing land clearing and repeated assaults by colonizers targeting homes near a newly established illegal outpost built on stolen Palestinian land.
On Monday, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers chased Palestinian herders in Khirbet Al-Farisiyya, located in the northern Jordan Valley of the occupied West Bank, forcing them to abandon grazing lands under the protection of Israeli police.
Earlier Monday, Israeli bulldozers continued leveling agricultural land in Beit Ur al-Fauqa, west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central region, for the second consecutive day, as part of an expansion project serving the illegal Israeli colony of Beit Horon.
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.
