On Thursday, dozens of illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers stormed Wadi Al-Leimoun area in the village of ‘Aboud, northwest of Ramallah, and installed an outpost on Palestinian land in Turmus Ayya, north of the city, in the occupied West Bank’s central part.
Elias Azar, head of the Aboud Village Council, reported that around 100 colonizers invaded the area from the direction of the illegal colony of Beit Aryeh, which was built on stolen Palestinian land.
Azar added that the colonizers attempted to destroy a water reservoir that serves as a vital collection point for several villages and towns north of Ramallah, particularly during water shortages in the summer.
Eyewitnesses stated that the colonizers also attempted to attack a Palestinian resident in the area using sharp objects, but he managed to escape before they could harm him.
In Turmus Ayya town, north of Ramallah, dozens of colonizers invaded the meadow area, installed an outpost and raised Israeli flags on under-construction Palestinian buildings.
In related news, Israeli colonizers attacked Palestinians and Bedouin communities in Asira Al-Qibliya, a town south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank’s northern part.
On Thursday evening, the Palestinian Health Ministry announced that Israeli forces shot and killed the young man, Alaa Shawkat Ahmad Khdeir, 29, in the town of Beita, south of Nablus.
Last Wednesday night, illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers attacked the property of a Palestinian family near the Hamra military roadblock in the northern Jordan Valley, stealing dozens of the family’s livestock.
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”.
