On Friday morning, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers fenced Palestinians grazing lands, destroyed agricultural tools, and uprooted olive saplings in the Northern Plains and Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

Human rights activist Aref Daraghma said a group of paramilitary colonizers invaded Palestinian grazing lands in the occupied West Bank’s Northern Plains of the Jordan Valley and installed fences.

Daraghma added that the colonizers installed the fences along three kilometers (about 1.86 Miles) of grazing lands to the south of the Ein Al-Hilwa Bedouin Community.

It is worth mentioning that the colonizers have fenced and illegally occupied thousands of Dunams of grazing lands in the Northern Plans since the beginning of this year, an issue that devastates many communities that depend on livestock and agriculture as their only sources of livelihood.

In Nablus, in the northern West Bank, illegal colonizers invaded Palestinian orchards in the eastern meadow area of Qaryout village, south of the city, uprooted dozens of olive saplings and destroyed agricultural tools and equipment owned by Mohammad Sa’id Mousa.

On Thursday, illegal paramilitary colonizers installed an outpost on lands near Za’tara town, east of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank.

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”.

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