Israeli soldiers demolished, Monday, a home and a burn that were built 80 years ago and demolished lands around them in Birin village, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank’s southern part.
Farid Burqan, the head of Birin Village Council, said the military bulldozers demolished the 80-year-old 120-square-meter home and barn, although they predate Israel and its illegal occupation.
Burqan added that the soldiers uprooted many trees, including olive trees and evergreens, around the demolished home and barn owned by Morad Abul-Samea’ Ashour.
In related news, the soldiers detained Ashraf Edreees and his child Mohammad, only nine years of age, in the Salayma neighborhood in the center of Hebron city, released the child four hours later, and abducted his father.
Israel’s illegal policies of home and structures demolitions, and the displacement of the Palestinians, in addition to the bulldozing and uprooting their farmlands and orchards, their daily livelihoods, are meant to force them to leave their lands to benefit the illegal Israeli colonialist activities. on the stolen lands.
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”.
