Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers established a new colonial outpost on Monday near the town of al‑‘Auja, north of Jericho, in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank.
Hassan Mleihat, the general coordinator of the Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission, said that large groups of colonizers brought heavy machinery and carried out land‑clearing operations aimed at imposing a new colonial reality on Palestinian‑owned land.
Mleihat added that the al‑‘Auja area is already surrounded by seven colonial herding outposts, which function as a primary tool for seizing Palestinian land and restricting Palestinian communities, threatening their continued presence in the occupied Jordan Valley.
In related news, colonizer militias invaded the Abu Fazza’ Palestinian community near the village of Taybeh, east of Ramallah in the West Bank’s central part, and conducted provocative tours around Palestinian homes.
The invasion is part of an ongoing, coordinated intimidation campaign by paramilitary colonizer groups, operating with full protection from the Israeli military, to expand colonial control and pressure Palestinian communities in the eastern Ramallah district.
On Sunday, Israeli colonizers chased students from Kisan School, east of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, as they were walking back to their homes.
Earlier on Sunday morning, a Palestinian student was injured after an Israeli colonizer rammed her with a vehicle on the main road of Al‑Lubban ash‑Sharqiya, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank.
Colonizers also carried out additional attacks in several parts of the occupied West Bank on Sunday, including causing damage to an under‑construction school near Ramallah.
On Saturday, Israeli colonizers carried out multiple attacks targeting Palestinian homes and vehicles in the Nablus and Ramallah districts, stabbing a young man, and causing extensive property damage in several communities across the occupied West Bank.
Also, Israeli colonizers wounded at least seven Palestinians, after invading the village of Madama, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.
The colonizers also carried out a series of attacks at dawn Saturday across multiple areas of the occupied West Bank, targeting Palestinian farmers, agricultural lands, and residential neighborhoods in the Hebron and Nablus districts.
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.
