On Friday, illegal Israeli colonizers cut seventy olive trees in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, in the West Bank’s southern part.
Rateb Jabour, the coordinator of the National and Popular Committee against the Annexation Wall and Colonies in southern Hebron, said the colonizers invaded the Ath-Tha’la area and cut at least seventy olive trees.
He added that a local farmer, Jamil Awad Zein, owns the invaded orchard and that the attack is not the first due to its proximity to the illegal Karmiel colony, built on stolen Palestinian lands.
Israeli soldiers were deployed in the area and did not even attempt to stop the colonizers but instead prevented the Palestinians from entering their lands.
Masafer Yatta is one of many areas in southern Hebron subject to serious escalating Israeli violations and invasions by the colonizer and the soldiers, including demolishing homes, schools, and other property, including sheds and barns.
Also Friday, illegal Israeli colonizers injured a young man near Burin village, south of Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
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.”
