On Monday, illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers set fire to hundreds of dunams of Palestinian farmland and seized nearly one hundred head of livestock in the town of Sa’ir, northeast of Hebron in the occupied West Bank’s southern part.
According to local resident Ahmad al-Shalalda, dozens of colonizers from the illegal “Asfar” colony invaded the Khirbet Jouret al-Kheil area and torched vast areas of farmland cultivated with grapevines, almond trees, olive trees, and other crops.
The affected lands belong to families from the Shalalda and Tarwa families, among others.
During the same assault, colonizers, accompanied by Israeli soldiers, stole 96 sheep belonging to local herder Ibrahim Mohammad Mustafa al-Shalalda.
Residents reported that these repeated attacks aim to forcibly displace them in favor of colonial expansion.
They cited the ongoing pattern of land seizures, arson, and livestock theft carried out by colonizers from the “Asfar” and “Kiryat Karmi” colonies.
Community members called on human rights organizations to intervene and curb the escalating assaults by occupation forces and their affiliated paramilitary groups.
Also Monday, a group of illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers, accompanied by Israeli soldiers, invaded Palestinian olive orchards in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, and destroyed more than 150 olive saplings.
On Monday morning, a young Palestinian man sustained injuries after being deliberately rammed by an illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizer near the town of Salfit in the central part of occupied West Bank.
On Saturday, Israeli paramilitary colonizers attacked Palestinian towns and villages throughout the West Bank – part of a trend of increasing colonizer violence against the indigenous Palestinian communities in the West Bank.
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.”
