A group of illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers released their livestock into Palestinian agricultural lands and residential areas in the Shallal al-Auja region, north of Jericho in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank, early Sunday morning.
Hassan Mleihat, General Coordinator of Al-Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights and Targeted Communities, stated that the colonizers forcibly prevented Palestinian residents from grazing their own livestock after storming the area.
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Mleihat described the attack as a deliberate attempt to assert control over the land and deprive local communities of their livelihoods.
He called on international human rights organizations and legal institutions to urgently intervene to halt these violations and safeguard Palestinians’ right to access and cultivate their land.
In related news, a group of Israeli colonizers hurled stones at Palestinian vehicles near the main entrance of Turmus Ayya town, north of Ramallah, in the central West Bank, causing damage.
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”.
