Israeli illegal paramilitary colonizers continued their attacks against Palestinian residents in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank’s southern part, while armed groups of colonizers gathered in Wadi Sa’ir to the north, blocking movement and heightening tension across the area, as Israeli soldiers abducted two Palestinians.
Media activist Osama Makhamra reported that colonizers chased Palestinian shepherds from the Na’amin family on Tuesday evening in Khirbet Aqawwis, forcing them away from their grazing lands.
In Khirbet al‑Halawa, colonizers released their sheep around the home of Palestinian resident Ahmad Ismael Abu ‘Arram before invading several nearby dwellings.
Similar assaults were documented in Khirbet al‑Markaz, al‑Mashhad in Khirbet al‑Tibban, and other surrounding hamlets, where colonizers released cattle and camels around Palestinian homes in an effort to pressure families off their land.
Meanwhile, armed colonizers gathered in Wadi Sa’ir near the illegal colony of “Asfar,” built on land belonging to the town of Sa’ir, and prevented Palestinians from reaching the bypass road.
In a related development, Israeli occupation forces abducted two Palestinian brothers from Masafer Yatta after invading the Hawara area.
Local sources identified the abducted Palestinians as Rami and Osama Issa Mos’ef, who were taken to an undisclosed location.
In the central West Bank, Israeli colonizers invaded the area surrounding a home in the village of Ein Siniya, north of Ramallah, on Tuesday morning.
Local sources said a group of colonizers, accompanied by their sheep, invaded the vicinity of the home of Anwar Armosh on the edge of the village and moved around the property in a provocative manner.
The same group had invaded Armosh’s home two days earlier, assaulted members of the family, and threatened to forcibly displace them and seize the house.
In the northern Jordan Valley, the Al‑Baydar Organization for Human Rights reported that colonizers began constructing a makeshift structure and raised the Israeli flag in the yard of a home belonging to the Obeyyat family in the village of Fasayel al‑Wista.
The organization said these actions are part of a series of ongoing violations carried out by colonizers against Palestinians and their property, reflecting an escalation that heightens tension and endangers the safety of local residents.
On Sunday, communities across the occupied West Bank witnessed a wave of attacks as illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers invaded multiple Palestinian areas, damaged homes and agricultural property, and forced residents and shepherds from their lands in the southern West Bank, central West Bank, occupied Jerusalem, Nablus in the northern West Bank, and the northern Jordan Valley.
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.
