Israeli Colonizers Pump Sewage Into Palestinian Lands In Bethlehem
On Sunday evening, several illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers invaded Palestinian agricultural lands in Kisan village, east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and pumped sewage water.
Ahmad Ghazal, the secretary of the Fateh movement in Kisan, stated that the colonizers came from the nearby illegal Ibei HaNahal colony, which was built on stolen Palestinian lands.
Ghazal added that the colonizers pumped sewage water into the Palestinian agricultural lands in the At-Tina area, southeast of the village.
He also mentioned that the colonizers always deliberately pump sewage water in Kisan, causing a health hazard and depriving landowners of reclaiming and cultivating their lands with wheat and barley and raising livestock. This has also led to the death of three sheep.
Also Sunday evening, a group of paramilitary illegal Israeli colonizers assaulted three Palestinians in Ein Al-Hilwa in the occupied West Bank’s Northern Plains.
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”.
Source: IMEMC News