On Saturday evening, a group of fanatic paramilitary Israeli colonizers invaded Hizma town, northeast of the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank, attacked homes and property, and fired many live rounds.
Media sources said the colonizers invaded the Al-Kharaba area, in the eastern part of the town, before attacking several homes and cars.
They added that the colonizers also cut and uprooted many trees and fired live rounds at the Palestinians who tried to stop them.
It is worth mentioning that Hizma has been subject to escalating Israeli violations, by both the soldiers and the paramilitary colonizers, including the attacks on property, the uprooting of trees, and the demolition of homes and structures.
On Thursday afternoon, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers burnt agricultural lands near Rantis village, located to the west of Ramallah in the central part of 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.
Both Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention and the International Criminal Court Rome Statute prohibit settlement activity.
According to Article 8(2) of the Rome Statute, ‘the transfer, directly or indirectly, by an occupying power of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies, or the deportation or transfer of all or parts of the population of the occupied territory within or outside this territory’ are unlawful. In 2021, United Nations Palestine expert Michael Lynk said Israeli settlements should be classified as war crimes under the Rome Statute.
