Day: 26 April 2024

BETHLEHEM: Palestinian residents of the village of Kisan to the east of Bethlehem, in the southern occupied West Bank, managed today to foil an Israeli colonists’ attempt to steal equipment, according to a local official.

The head of the Kisan village council, Musa Abiyat, told WAFA that a group of colonists broke into the Kisan wilderness in an attempt to steal agricultural equipment, several barracks and a tank of water; however their attempt was foiled by the locals.

Farmers and livestock keepers in the village of Kisan are subjected to almost daily colonists’ attacks, said the official.

In many cases of attacks, Israeli forces offer protection to the colonists and turn a blind eye to attacks committed against Palestinian locals.

Settlements are illegal under international law as they violate Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits the transfer of the occupying power’s civilian population into occupied territory.

Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA

GAZA: Five civilians were killed this evening in the Israeli bombardment of the central and southern Gaza Strip.

WAFA correspondent said that the occupation warplanes bombed the vicinity of the Faisal School in the Japanese Neighborhood of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, which led to the killing of three civilians.

Two civilians were also killed and others were injured in Israeli airstrikes that targeted a location in the Sawarha area to the west of the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Strip.

Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA

RAMALLAH: Continuing with their terror rampages, armed Israeli colonists today attacked the villagers of al-Mughayyir, east of the West Bank city of Ramallah, and attempted to destroy their farmlands, according to a local activist.

Mohammad Abu Alya said that armed colonists rampaged through the olive groves of the villagers in an attempt to vandalize olive trees and opened fire at a group of villagers who attempted to confront them and fend off the attack.

This came several days after colonists set up two tents at the nearby locality of Ayn al-Banat, stirring the villagers’ fears that this could serve as a prelude to taking over villagers’ lands and a nucleus of a future colony.

Colonist violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.

Colonist violence includes property and mosque arsons, stone-throwing, uprooting of crops and olive trees, and attacks on vulnerable homes, among others.

Over 700,000 Israeli colonists are living
in colonies across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank in violation of international law.

Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA