Illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers launched several incursions Saturday across multiple areas of the occupied West Bank’s Northern Plains, targeting Palestinian communities and infrastructure.
Local sources confirmed that settler groups stormed the Al-Maita Bedouin community, where they vandalized a solar energy installation.
They added that the colonizers also destroyed a public internet access point used by residents in the community.
The colonizers also invaded the areas of Samra and Hammamat Al-Maleh, where they engaged in systematic harassment, intimidation, and threats against Palestinian civilians.
The Northern Plains region continues to witness a sharp escalation in settler violence, which includes home invasions, physical assaults, property destruction, and livestock theft.
Colonizers have also been actively chasing Palestinian herders from grazing lands, barring access and attacking their animals.
Earlier Saturday, Israeli colonizers carried out coordinated attacks in two areas of the occupied West Bank—Masafer Yatta near Hebron in the south, and Al-Auja near Jericho in the northeast.
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.
