On Thursday night, a Palestinian man was killed after an illegal Israeli colonizer rammed him with her car near Hebron, in the occupied West Bank’s southern part.
Media sources said the man, Ayman Mohammad Al-Halees, 40, was walking near the main entrance of Bani Neim town, east of Hebron, when the colonizers rammed him and sped away.
They added that the slain man is from Yatta city, south of Hebron.
In December of last year, 2022, an Israeli colonizer killed two Palestinian siblings, Mohammad Yousef Mteir, 37, and his brother Mohannad, 19, after ramming them with his car near the Za’tara Israeli military roadblock south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus and fled the scene.
On January 6, 2022, a young man, Mustafa Yassin Falna, 25, from Safa village, west of Ramallah, was killed in the central part of the occupied West Bank after being rammed by an Israeli vehicle while heading to his work in Jerusalem.
On December 24, 2021, a Palestinian woman, Ghadir Anis Masalma, 63, was killed by an Israeli colonialist settler who rammed her with his car and fled the scene near the entrance of the town of Sinjil, northeast of Ramallah in the central 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.”
