On Wednesday, a group of illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers set up a new colonialist outpost on stolen Palestinian land in Bruqin village, west of Salfit, in the occupied central West Bank.
Bruqin Mayor Fa’ed Sabra stated that the colonizers, accompanied by Israeli soldiers, invaded Palestinian lands and installed the outpost.
He added that in recent days, the colonizers and Israeli occupation forces have been bulldozing and uprooting Palestinian land in the area as part of a colonial expansion project backed by the so-called “Regional Council of Settlements.”
Salfit Governor Mustafa Taqatqa emphasized that this latest encroachment is part of Israel’s broader colonialist policies, supported by various civil and military agencies, aimed at annexing more Palestinian land to expand illegal Israeli settlements.
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On Monday evening, illegal paramilitary colonizers set fire to fruit-bearing trees and agricultural crops in Khirbet Khallet al-Furn, part of the village of Birin, east of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
A report by the Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission, revealed that Israeli forces and paramilitary colonizers committed a total of 1,693 assaults in April alone.
The report detailed that Israeli military forces carried out 1,352 of these incidents, while colonizers were responsible for 341 attacks, primarily concentrated in Hebron (292 incidents), Ramallah and Al-Bireh (269 incidents), and Nablus (254 incidents).
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 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.
