Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers, accompanied by Israeli soldiers, launched a coordinated assault Monday evening in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank’s southern part, involving livestock theft, property destruction, and intimidation of civilians.
Anti-colonization activist, Osama Makhamra, stated that a group of paramilitary colonizers stole 20 camels belonging to the Ka’abna family from the Edqeiqa area of the Bedouin desert.
Makhamra added that the camels were driven away to an undisclosed location, while Israeli soldiers stood guard, effectively enabling the theft.
In a parallel incursion, colonizers, heavily armed and escorted by military personnel, stormed the village of Qwawis, before invading the home of Khaled Mousa Al-Na’amin. They vandalized the residence, destroyed livestock shelters, and attempted to steal additional animals.
Simultaneously, they released their own herds into the area, causing deliberate damage to fruit-bearing trees and cultivated land.
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Eyewitnesses reported that colonizers charged at residents and three international activists on horseback, instilling fear, and chaos.
In addition, Israeli soldiers invaded Ethna town, west of Hebron, and fired many gas bombs and concussion grenades at its main entrance, near the segregated, colonialist road #35, causing fire in surrounding lands.
Live ammunition was also fired into the air along the rugged Al-Hamoush road, which connects the town of Ethna to the colonial Route 35, in order to prevent vehicles from passing.
In related news, Israeli colonizers conducted multiple armed incursions on Monday targeting the tents of Palestinian resident Raed Sbeih in the village of Al-Farisiya, located in the northern Jordan Valley.
Local sources said the colonizers invaded the site more than five times, instilling fear and panic among children and women present.
The repeated assaults are part of a broader escalation in colonizer violence across the region. Earlier Monday, one Palestinian family was forced to flee Al-Farisiya and seek refuge in Tubas due to the intensifying threats and harassment.
These acts of intimidation and displacement reflect a systematic campaign to uproot Palestinian communities from the Jordan Valley, a region under constant pressure from Israeli expansionist policies.
Such invasions and breaches violate multiple provisions of international law, including:
Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which 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.
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.
