Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers stormed a Palestinian home in the town of Silwad, northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central part, at dawn on Tuesday, vandalizing its contents.
Local sources reported that a group of colonizers broke into the residence of Abu Adam al-Silwadi after smashing its doors.
The colonizers then ransacked the property, damaging its belongings before fleeing the area.
The attack comes amid a marked escalation in colonizer violence across towns and villages in the Ramallah and al-Bireh governorate, as well as other areas of the occupied West Bank in recent months.
These assaults have included home invasions, arson targeting property, and physical attacks against residents — all carried out under the protection and support of Israeli occupation forces.
On Monday, Israeli colonizers, accompanied by occupation forces, carried out several assaults, attacking Palestinian farmers in Mikhmas northeast of occupied Jerusalem and torching agricultural lands between Atara and Birzeit north of Ramallah, and uprooting trees northeast of Ramallah.
Furthermore, Israeli colonizers conducted a series of assaults across the occupied West Bank, including livestock theft in Hebron, physical attacks on a driver near Jericho, the establishment of a new outpost in the northern Jordan Valley, violent assaults on Palestinian vehicles and farmland in the South Hebron Hills, and assaults near Qalqilia, in northern West Bank,
These assaults have included home invasions, arson targeting property, and physical attacks against residents — all carried out under the protection and support of Israeli occupation forces.
Observers note that such actions are part of ongoing attempts to expand illegal outposts and impose further restrictions on Palestinian communities.
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.
