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 the occupied West Bank.
Local media sources identified the victim as Rajaei Natour, a resident of Kafr ed-Deek, west of Salfit.
The colonizer is from the illegal Brukhin colony, which is established atop confiscated Palestinian land in the area.
Following the incident, Natour was transferred to Yasser Arafat Hospital in Salfit, where medical staff described his condition as moderate but stable.
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.”
