In the early hours of Saturday morning, illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers set fire to a Palestinian home in the village of Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central part.
A group of colonizers infiltrated the outskirts of the village and torched the single-story home of Palestinian resident Basel al-Sheikh, partially burning it.
Later that morning, Israeli forces stormed the area and opened live fire on Palestinians who had gathered near the scene. No injuries were reported.
This attack is part of a broader escalation: in October alone, colonizers carried out 766 documented assaults on Palestinians, their homes, lands, and property, the Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission said.
These include arson, armed raids, destruction of crops, and physical assaults — all with near-total impunity.
Such acts constitute grave violations of international law, including the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits attacks on civilians and the destruction of property in occupied territory.
The pattern of coordinated settler violence, backed by state forces, reflects a deliberate strategy of forced displacement and territorial domination.
On Friday, Israeli colonizers demolished residential tents and livestock shelters belonging to Palestinian residents in Khirbet Hamsa, in the northern Jordan Valley of the occupied West Bank, on Friday.
On Thursday, Israeli colonizers carried out a number of attacks, injuring a child and destroying olive trees, after targeting Palestinians and their property, in the occupied West Bank.
Furthermore, Israeli colonizers invaded the Bedouin community of Al-Hathrawa near Khan al-Ahmar, east of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, and demolished four mobile homes used by local families.
It is worth mentioning that, on Wednesday, Israeli occupation authorities issued two new tenders for the construction of a colonial neighborhood in the illegal colony of Adam (Givat Binyamin), built on stolen Palestinian land northeast of occupied Jerusalem.
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 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits collective punishment and acts of terror against civilian populations.
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”.
Articles 53 and 147, prohibit the destruction of civilian property and classify pillage as a war crime.
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