Illegal paramilitary colonizers, accompanied by Israeli soldiers, invaded Douma village, south of Nablus in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, burning farms and cars and shooting three Palestinians.
Suleiman Dawabsha, head of the Douma Village Council, reported that more than 300 paramilitary Israeli colonizers invaded the village, attacking homes in the western area before setting fire to five Palestinian cars.
The colonizers also partially burned two barns before the locals intervened and attempted to force them to leave.
Israeli soldiers fired live ammunition, rubber-coated steel bullets, and gas bombs at Palestinians defending their livelihoods, while the colonizers also shot live rounds.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) stated that a 35-year-old Palestinian was shot in the leg, a 45-year-old suffered fragment wounds in his eye and arm, and a 17-year-old teenager was struck in the eye by a rubber-coated steel bullet.
PRCS medics treated the injured Palestinians before transferring them to a hospital in Nablus.
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”.
