Earlier Friday, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers have established a new outpost near the Bedouin community of al-Hathroura in Khan al-Ahmar, east of occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank.
The outpost was set up near the residents homes and dwellings, and aims at restricting residents’ movement, block grazing lands, in addition to seizing more Palestinian land for colonial projects.
On Wednesday evening, Israeli occupation forces invaded the al-Hathroura community, storming several tents and abducting three Palestinian residents from the Arab al-Ara’ra.
Just days earlier, a group of colonizers, accompanied by Israeli occupation forces, demolished several homes in the community, assaulted residents and abducted three young Palestinian men.
The Bedouin community has faced repeated attacks aimed at forcing them to leave, clearing the way for full control of their land.
On Thursday evening, Israeli colonizers carried out a number of attacks against Palestinian citizens in the governorates of Qalqilia, Nablus, and Ramallah.
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.
