On Monday, a Palestinian man died after dozens of illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers stormed the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah in the central part of the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Health Ministry announced on Monday evening that the citizen, Wael Basem Mohammad Ghafri, 48, died after exposure to toxic tear gas fired by the occupation army who were protecting illegal Israeli colonizers.
Media sources said that on Monday morning, dozens of illegal colonizers invaded the town of Sinjil under the protection of the occupation army, sparking protests.
According to eyewitness statements, a number of settlers stormed an area between Sinjil and the town of al-Mazra’a ash-Sharqiya and burned a farmhouse while Israeli soldiers opened fire live rounds and tear gas canisters at citizens, causing dozens to sustain inhalation injuries.
According to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, illegal colonizers have established 60 settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank since the beginning of the Israeli military onslaught in the besieged Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023.
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”.
