Earlier Tuesday, a group of illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers cut and uprooted dozens of trees on Palestinian lands in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank’s southern part.
Local nonviolent activist, Mohammad Awad, said the colonizer came from the Beit Ayin illegal colony that was built on stolen Palestinian lands.
He added that the colonizers invaded the Ein Al-Baida area, north of Safa in Beit Ummar, before cutting and uprooting at least fifty olive trees, in addition to grapevines, owned by a Palestinian farmer from the local ‘Aadi family.
On Monday evening, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers invaded Palestinian lands in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, demolished two sheds, and a barn, and broke and cut trees, in addition to chasing farmers and shepherds.
In related news, the colonizers shot two Palestinians, including a child, and burned a vehicle and a citizen’s home in the town of Asira al-Qibliya, southwest of Nablus in the northern occupied 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”.
