Illegal Israeli colonizers kidnapped a Palestinian citizen and assaulted others on Tuesday, in the West Bank governorates of Tubas, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Hebron.
Media sources reported that illegal colonizers stormed the village of Ras al-Ahmar, southeast of Tubas in the northeastern part of the West Bank.
The settlers invaded tents belonging to Suleiman Jamil Bani Odeh on Tuesday and assaulted him, causing him to suffer various injuries.
Meanwhile, Israeli colonizers stormed the Al-Ma’azi Bedouin community east of Jaba’ town, northeast of Jerusalem, and kidnapped a Palestinian citizen.
The Al-Baydar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights reported that illegal settlers stormed citizens’ homes, assaulted their residents, and kidnapped the citizen Ahmad Ara’ara, taking him to an unknown location.
Furthermore, a group of settlers stormed a cemetery and harassed mourners near the village of Kisan, southeast of Bethlehem in the southern West Bank.
Media sources reported that the colonizers damaged gravestones in the cemetery which dates back to the time of the British occupation of Palestine in 1917.
They harassed Palestinians during the burial of a child, before citizens confronted them and forced them to withdraw.
Also in southern West Bank, Israeli settlers carried out an inflammatory “flag march” through the streets of the Old City of Hebron, under army protection.
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Hebron
Media sources reported that dozens of settlers gathered in the Jaber neighborhood and Wadi al-Hussein area of the city, marching towards the Ibrahimi Mosque, waving the flag of the occupation while repeating racist anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian slogans.
Occupation soldiers forced Palestinian shop owners to close and restricted the movement of citizens by closing several roads leading to the Ibrahimi Mosque.
Quds Press reported that armed Israeli settlers harassed Palestinian farmers east of Ethna, west of Hebron, while others grazed their livestock on Palestinian land near the town of Raba, southeast of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank.
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Ethna, Hebron
According to Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.”
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Raba, Jenin
