On Friday, a group of illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out a series of assaults targeting Palestinian farmers and lands in Hebron and Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s southern and central parts.
Local activist Osama Makhamra reported that colonizers originating from the illegal Otniel colony, built on confiscated Palestinian lands, used a bulldozer to destroy a 50-square-meter agricultural shed in the Khallet al-Farra area, west of Yatta town, south of Hebron.
Makhamra added that the colonizers also stormed the Akhlal al-Hummus area, east of Yatta, where they broke into the home of Mohammad Abdullah Obeid, vandalized windows, and looted furniture and electronic devices, including the mobile phones of Obeid’s wife and son, allegedly to prevent documentation of the incursion.
Israeli soldiers subsequently arrived, detained Obeid, and interrogated him for several hours, instead of removing the colonizers.
Further acts of aggression by the colonizers included releasing cattle to graze around Palestinian homes, uprooting trees and grapevine saplings, and destroying irrigation infrastructure.
Meanwhile, in Shuqba town west of Ramallah, colonizers assaulted Palestinian farmers, threatening them with gunfire if they did not vacate their land.
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Video footage from the area shows an armed illegal paramilitary colonizer shoving a young man and firing live rounds to drive Palestinians away.
Earlier Friday, a Palestinian woman sustained bruises after a group of illegal paramilitary colonizers invaded residential areas in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank.
Also dozens of Israeli colonizers invaded the northern West Bank City of Nablus city, and stormed Joseph’s Tomb, sparking confrontations. Additionally, illegal colonizers assaulted a Palestinian woman near Hebron in the southern West Bank and razed land near Nablus.
On Thursday, the Israeli occupation army issued an order illegally confiscating Palestinian lands in the town of Ya’bad, southwest of Jenin in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
On Thursday morning, illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers invaded Arab Al-Mleihat Bedouin community, northwest of Jericho in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank.
The attack is part of ongoing Israeli violations against the Palestinians in various communities in Jericho, as well as various parts of the occupied West Bank, as part of constant violations aimed at terrorizing the locals to force them to leave to construct and expand the illegal colonies.
On Wednesday evening, three Palestinians were killed, and seven others were injured, during an attack by illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers against the town of Kafr Malik, northeast of Ramallah in the central West Bank.
The Palestinian Health Ministry reported that soldiers and colonizers killed three young men and wounded seven others during a large-scale settler attack against the town of Kafr Malik.
The Shireen Observatory identified the slain Palestinians as, Mershid Nawaf Hamayel, 35, Lotfi Sabry Ba’erat, 18, and Mohammad Maher An-Naji.
On Wednesday, Israeli occupation authorities issued a decision to illegally annex privately owned Palestinian lands in the town of Hizma, northeast of the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, 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”.
