An elderly Palestinian woman was injured on Thursday evening after illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers assaulted residents in the area of Khirbet Ghuwein, south of the town of as-Samu’, south of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
Local sources stated that a group of armed colonizers attacked residents with clubs, causing injuries to Mariam Salim Al-Hawamda, 80.
Palestinian medics rushed to the area and transported the woman, who sustained bruises and contusions, to hospital for treatment.
The incident occurred when the soldiers attacked several Palestinian shepherds, including children, after they invaded Khirbet Ghuwein Bedouin community near as-Samu’ town.
In related news, Israeli colonizers attacked several residents from the town of Beita, south of Nablus, in the northern West Bank.
Following the residents’ efforts to repel the colonizers, Israeli forces invaded the town, triggering protests before they fired tear gas at the Palestinians.
Earlier Thursday, Israeli attacked and injured a number of Palestinians in Hebron, Bethlehem and 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.
