Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers invaded the Bedouin community of Al-Hathrawa near Khan al-Ahmar, east of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, on Thursday and demolished four mobile homes used by local families.
Hassan Mleihat, general coordinator of the Al-Baydar Organization for Defending Bedouin Rights, stated that the colonizers arrived with heavy machinery, encircled the area, and forcibly prevented residents from approaching as they destroyed the structures and ransacked their contents.
The targeted units served as essential housing and facilities for several families. Their destruction deepens the humanitarian crisis facing Bedouin communities and heightens the threat of forced displacement.
This attack is part of a broader campaign of colonizer violence targeting Bedouin communities across the occupied West Bank.
On September 28, colonizers attacked the Bedouin community of Khallet al-Sidra near Mikhmas, east of occupied Jerusalem, severing electricity cables and blocking the only access road, effectively isolating residents.
The Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission reported that over 30 Bedouin communities have been forcibly displaced since the beginning of 2025, affecting more than 323 families.
In early October, colonizers carried out coordinated assaults in Masafer Yatta near Hebron and Al-Auja near Jericho.
In Masafer Yatta, they torched a Palestinian vehicle and vandalized homes, while in Al-Auja, they released livestock among residential tents to provoke residents. These attacks are part of a deliberate strategy to suffocate Palestinian life in Area C and forcibly clear land for settlement expansion.
Colonizer violence has also escalated in the Jordan Valley and central West Bank. In June, colonizers invaded Shallal al-Auja near Jericho, uprooted olive trees in Ramallah’s Kafr Malek, and assaulted Palestinian civilians near Nablus and Hebron. Pregnant women and elderly residents have been among the victims of these assaults.
Human rights organizations warn that these actions constitute grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention, including forcible transfer, collective punishment, and destruction of civilian property.
In October alone, the Governorate documented 13 colonial plans based on daily monitoring of official announcements by the so-called Civil Administration and the Israeli municipality in Jerusalem, in coordination with the Orient House. These include five deposited plans covering 769 units on 19.861 dunams, and five approved plans totaling 5,129 new units.
On Tuesday, Israeli occupation authorities forced two Palestinian families in occupied Jerusalem to carry out self-demolitions—one of a family home in Silwan, the other of a livestock shelter in al-‘Isawiya.
On Monday morning, Israeli occupation authorities compelled a Palestinian to demolish his home in Isawiya town, northeast of Jerusalem.
It is worth mentioning that, on Wednesday, Israeli occupation authorities issued two new tenders for the construction of a colonial neighborhood in the illegal colony of Adam (Givat Binyamin), built on stolen Palestinian land northeast of occupied Jerusalem.
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.
