On Wednesday morning, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers stole at least 200 sheep from Palestinian Bedouins in the Ras Al-Awja community, north of Jericho, in the northeastern West Bank.
Hasan Mleihat, the head of the al-Baidar Organization for Defending Bedouin Rights, said the colonizers came from several illegal nearby outposts, established on stolen Palestinian lands.
He added that the colonizers stole at least 200 sheep owned by a local shepherd, Odah Amarin Ka’abna.
The colonizers conduct frequent violations against the Palestinians, their lands, and livestock in the area, including physical assaults, destruction of property, destroying water sources, in addition to stealing livestock and other property to force the Palestinians to leave the area.
In related news, Israeli bulldozers demolished five Palestinian homes, a gas station, and a carwash facility in the At-Tour town, located to the east of occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank.
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, and 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.”
