Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers set fire at dawn Friday to six tourist villas under construction on Mount Tarouja, between the villages of al-Lubban al-Sharqiya and Ammuriya, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA) reported that a group of colonizers infiltrated the mountain and ignited the villas, owned by Palestinian citizen Khalil Abu Sneina and several partners.
WAFA added that guard of the site immediately attempted to extinguish the blaze and sustained burns.
In related news, colonizers set fire to numerous vehicles inside a scrapyard near the town of Huwwara, south of Nablus.
Local sources said the attackers infiltrated the yard and ignited the cars, causing extensive damage.
Also at dawn, Israeli colonizers attacked a plant nursery in the village of Deir Sharaf, west of Nablus in the occupied West Bank’s northern part.
Just two days earlier, colonizers assaulted a commercial shop in the same village belonging to Mohammad Maraqa from al-‘Ain refugee camp, smashing its contents and front façade.
At dawn Friday, Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers set fire to an agricultural room in the village of Abu Falah, north of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank’s central part.
On Wednesday morning, Illegal Israeli colonizers vandalized a Palestinian vehicle in the village of Taybeh, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central part, and looted construction materials from a home under construction in the northern town of Turmus Ayya.
On Wednesday evening, Israeli occupation forces invaded the al-Hathroura community, storming several tents and abducting three Palestinian residents from the Arab al-Ara’ra.
Just days earlier, a group of colonizers, accompanied by Israeli occupation forces, demolished several homes in the community, assaulted residents and abducted three young Palestinian men.
The Bedouin community has faced repeated attacks aimed at forcing them to leave, clearing the way for full control of their land.
On Thursday evening, Israeli colonizers carried out a number of attacks against Palestinian citizens in the governorates of Qalqilia, Nablus, and Ramallah.
According to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Authority, colonizers carried out 766 attacks in October alone, concentrated in the governorates of Ramallah and al-Bireh, Nablus, and Hebron.
These repeated assaults highlight a systematic campaign of serious violations designed to dismantle Palestinian livelihoods, intimidate communities, and entrench illegal colonial expansion in violation of international law.
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.
