Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers invaded the al-Khalayel area of al-Mughayyir village, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central part, on Saturday, poisoning a flock of sheep, killing three.
Media sources said the colonizers broke into a barn belonging to Palestinian citizen Rezeq Abu Na’im and poisoned his sheep leading to the death of three.
Al-Mughayyir has been subjected to continuous colonizer assaults, including the burning of vehicles, racist graffiti, grazing their livestock on Palestinian lands, and most recently the theft of agricultural equipment from residents.
This latest attack underscores the systematic campaign of intimidation and destruction aimed at forcing Palestinian families from their lands in the Ramallah district.
At dawn on Friday, Israeli colonizers carried out a surge of assaults against Palestinians and their belongings in multiple parts of the occupied West Bank.
In Nablus, in northern West Bank, colonizers set fire to six tourism villas under construction on Mount Tarouja, between the villages of Al‑Lubban al‑Sharqiya and Ammuriya.
Colonizers also attacked a plant nursery in the village of Deir Sharaf, west of Nablus, owned by Nasser Nasser, destroying and damaging its crops.
On Wednesday morning, Illegal Israeli colonizers vandalized a Palestinian vehicle in the village of Taybeh, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central part, and looted construction materials from a home under construction in the northern town of Turmus Ayya.
On Wednesday evening, Israeli occupation forces invaded the al-Hathroura community, storming several tents and abducting three Palestinian residents from the Arab al-Ara’ra.
Just days earlier, a group of colonizers, accompanied by Israeli occupation forces, demolished several homes in the community, assaulted residents and abducted three young Palestinian men.
The Bedouin community has faced repeated attacks aimed at forcing them to leave, clearing the way for full control of their land.
On Thursday evening, Israeli colonizers carried out a number of attacks against Palestinian citizens in the governorates of Qalqilia, Nablus, and Ramallah.
According to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Authority, colonizers carried out 766 attacks in October alone, concentrated in the governorates of Ramallah and al-Bireh, Nablus, and Hebron.
These repeated assaults highlight a systematic campaign of serious violations designed to dismantle Palestinian livelihoods, intimidate communities, and entrench illegal colonial expansion in violation of international law.
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.
