A pregnant Palestinian woman sustained bruises and lost consciousness on Friday after being assaulted by illegal paramilitary colonizers in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank’s southern region.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) confirmed that its medical teams treated the 37-year-old woman, who suffered injuries after being physically attacked by the colonizers.
The PRCS added that the injured pregnant woman was later transported to a hospital for further care.
According to media activist Osama Makhamra, attackers targeted the village of Khirbet al-Dabe’ in Masafer Yatta, assaulting women in the area.
Makhamra added that the soldiers assaulted Fatima Dababsa, 37, and pushed her onto a rocky ledge, leading to her injuries and loss of consciousness.
Recent weeks have seen a rise in attacks on residents and their properties in Khirbet al-Dabe’, with homes being demolished and a cave occupied as part of efforts to force Palestinian families from the land and establish a new outpost in the area.
Late Friday night, paramilitary Israeli colonizers assaulted two Palestinian bus drivers in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank.
In related news, a group of illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers continued the construction of a new colonialist outpost on stolen Palestinian lands in the Al-Mughayyir village, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central part.
Israeli soldiers and paramilitary colonizers have escalated their invasions and violations across the occupied West Bank, with dozens of colonizers also attacking Palestinian homes, uprooting lands, burning cars and torching farmlands, while Israeli occupation soldiers uprooted trees.
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”.
