In a serious escalation of illegal Israeli colonizers’ aggression across the occupied West Bank, armed paramilitary colonizers launched a coordinated nighttime invasion of Khallet al-Dabe’, one of the 19 Palestinian hamlets that make up Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank’s southern part, wounding at least 20 Palestinians, including seven children, and a four-month-old infant, and resulted in the destruction of homes and agricultural lands.
The Israeli assailants stormed the village under cover of darkness, demolishing residential structures and uprooting olive trees, grapevines, almond orchards, and native forestry.
Witnesses described the invasion as a deliberate act of terror aimed at erasing Palestinian presence from ancestral lands.
The colonizers then assaulted the local families, including children and women; the victims were beaten, sprayed with tear gas, and forcibly displaced.
Infant Yaqin Abbas Dababsa suffered a head injury during the assault. Emergency crews from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) evacuated the injured to Abu al-Hassan al-Qasim Hospital in Yatta. The wounded include:
Ali Mohammad Dababsa (86)
Amina Ibrahim Dababsa (73)
Abbas Adnan Dababsa (40)
Zainab Ali Dababsa (31)
Ruqayya Ali Dababsa (31)
Jaber Ali Dababsa (38)
Mohammad Ragheb Dababsa (17)
Hani Badawi Dababsa (36)
Basil Amer Dababsa (14)
Katiba Abbas Dababsa (14)
Laith Abbas Dababsa (13)
Anas Abbas Dababsa (11)
Ezzedine Abbas Dababsa (7)
Yaqin Abbas Dababsa (4 months)
With their homes reduced to rubble, displaced families have taken shelter in nearby caves, determined to remain on the land they inherited from generations past.
Residents describe the scene as a renewed Nakba—an ongoing catastrophe imposed through violence and state-backed dispossession.
Local communities and rights advocates assert that this attack is part of a systematic campaign to forcibly remove Palestinians from Masafer Yatta.
The colonizers operate with full impunity, shielded by the Israeli government, which provides political and military cover for settler violence.
The assault reflects a broader strategy of ethnic cleansing, land seizure, and demographic engineering—practices that violate international humanitarian law and the protections afforded to civilians under occupation.
The forced displacement of Palestinians from Masafer Yatta has drawn global condemnation.
These attacks constitute war crimes under the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits the transfer of protected populations and the destruction of civilian property absent military necessity.
The attack on Khallet al-Daba’ is not an isolated incident—it is a continuation of a decades-long policy of erasure, carried out with precision and impunity.
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, which prohibit the destruction of civilian property and classify pillage as a war crime.
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