Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers invaded the main water well station in Ein Samia, located east of Kafr Malik, northeast of Ramallah in the central part of the occupied West Bank, late Wednesday night.
The colonizers vandalized property belonging to the Jerusalem Governorate Water Authority, slashing the tires of one of its vehicles, smashing its windows, and destroying surveillance cameras at the site.
Earlier on Thursday, technical teams from the Water Authority managed to restore operations at Well No. 2 in Ein Samia after it was shut down for several hours due to repeated attacks by colonizers targeting the area’s water infrastructure.
The Authority confirmed that its crews worked continuously to repair the damage and resume water supply to residents, stressing that the deliberate targeting of water wells constitutes a grave violation threatening the sole water source for more than nineteen Palestinian communities within the service zone.
The Authority reiterated its urgent call to protect these wells, which have faced a sustained campaign of attacks over recent weeks.
It urged international and human rights organizations to intervene immediately to halt these violations and safeguard Palestinians’ right to secure and uninterrupted access to water.
The attack is part of seriously escalating violations by fanatic Israeli colonizers across the occupied West Bank.
In related news, Israeli soldiers invaded the Al-Jalazone refugee camp, north of Ramallah, and fired many gas bombs and concussion grenades at the Palestinians and their homes, before withdrawing.
In Jenin, in the northern West Bank, the soldiers invaded the Al-Yamun town, west of the city, and were heavily deployed in the Sammoudi neighborhood while military drones flew overhead, before the soldiers stormed and ransacked several homes.
Earlier Thursday, a group of colonizers invaded Kafr Malik, assaulting Palestinian shepherds and stealing hundreds of livestock.
Also Thursday, the Israeli occupation authorities issued two military orders to confiscate approximately 16 dunams of privately owned Palestinian land in the village of Jinsafut, east of Qalqilia in the northern West Bank, for the construction of new colonial, segregated road segments.
Human rights organizations and legal experts have condemned the move as a grave violation of international law, particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits the transfer of an occupying power’s civilian population into occupied territory and the destruction or appropriation of property not justified by military necessity.
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, which prohibit the destruction of civilian property and classify pillage as a war crime. Israeli colonies also constitute war crimes under International Law.
