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Hebron Region
* On 2 April, settlers,
who has already occupied Rajabi building located in Altas to the west of the
Qiryat Arba settlement on 19 March, renewed their aggressions and attacked the
residents nearby the building. Bassam Ja’bari said that Around 20 settlers,
both men and women, stoned my shop and other houses for two hours, until the soldiers
came and stopped them. The settlers also yelled Death to Arabs. The houses that
were stoned belong to Riziq J’bari, Naser Fahid Ja’bari and Mohammed Rabi’,
while the shop belongs to Mo’tz Mohmmed Jaber. Since the occupation of the area,
the settlers have attacked the residents from time to time, especially during
the night. The victims have raised many complaints at the nearby police station,
but despite promises, no real change has occurred, which makes people’s life in
the area frightening and risky
* On 2 April, the Israeli
military built a settlement road that links between the Beit Haggai settlement
in the south of Hebron
and an Israeli military outpost to the west of the settlement. Abid Elhadi
Hantash, from the Land Defense Committees, said that the road is 500 meters long,
and to build it they confiscated six dunam belonging to the Maraqa family. From
time to time, this settlement has expanded and this is the reason for the
confiscation of hundreds of dunam of land, and the isolation of the land around
it. Recently, the settlement fence has been expanded again by the settlers.
* On 5 April, at
midnight, settlers from the Ramot Yishai settlement outpost in downtown Hebron burned a car
belonging to Hana Abu Haikal, who lives near the outpost. Hana reports that a group
of settlers attacked her in front of Israeli soldiers standing at the checkpoint
just 30 meters away from her house. She added that during the last year, settlers
burned her car and she raised the issue to the police station in the city, but received
no response. Additionally, this time the soldiers prevented the Hebron Municipality
fire brigades from reaching her car, until it burned completely. Days later,
settlers also damaged another car belonging to the family by throwing stones.
* On April 8, settlers,
in cooperation with Israeli soldiers, attacked and beat journalist Ata Owaisat,
who works with the Associate Press agency. He was attacked while covering the settlers’
activities. They attacked him near the Abraham Mosque in downtown Hebron, along with
attempting to steal his camera and verbally abusing him.
* On April 8, settlers
from the Ma’on settlement, to the south east of Yatta, renewed their attacks against
students from the village
of Toba. The settlers chased
after the students while they were returning to their homes, stoning and beating
them. Two students, 11-year-old Dalal Iss Awad, and 12-year-old Diana Shihada
Makhamra, were injured. It is important to mention here that the settlers have
prevented the students from using the main street to reach the school in the nearby
Tuwani village, and this has been well-known for years.
* On 13April, settlers
from the Givat Ma’on settlement outpost, to the south east of Yatta renewed their
attacks against shepherds, preventing them from feeding their goats on land near
the outpost. Hafiz Huraini, member of the Local Council in the village of Tuwani, reported that the settlers from
the outpost and from the Ma’on settlement attacked some shepherds and forced
them to leave the place. Amjad Mousa Raba’e, 20, was beaten by the settlers, who
claimed, as usual that the land belongs to the outpost. A few days ago, settlers
occupied almost 500 sq. meters of land to the south of the outpost and set up
two tents there. The residents and owners of the land from the village made a complaint
to the police, but the tents are still there and the settlers have begun to
visit it, to make clear that this land is already taken over.
* On 23 April, settlers
from Karmi Zur and the nearby outpost attacked farmers from the town of Halhoul, to the north of Hebron. The settlers tried to force the
farmers to leave their land around the settlement. The mayor of Halhoul stated
that the settlers’ attacks caused two injuries: Hassan Noh, 45, and Mohammed
Aqel, 46. A few days before this incident, settlers from the same settlement
attacked and stoned some farmers at the same location. The same day, six armed
settlers from the Ma’on settlement to the south east of Yatta attacked the
shepherd Omar Abu Jubdiyya from Toba village while he was feeding his goats in
his land to the east of the settlement. Hfiz Hurauni, the Local Council member
in the village, said reported that the settlers took one goat and threatened
Omar that they will take all his goats if he will came back to the place.
* On 27 April, seven Palestinian,
International and Israeli peace activists were injured by Israeli soldiers and settlers while they
were helping Palestinians from the village of Bani Na’eem, to the east of Hebron to work in their
land located near the Bani Haver settlement to the southeast of the village. The
area of the land that the settlers and military prevented the farmers from entering
is almost 1500 dunam. The soldiers stopped and arrested some activists like Rabbi
Arik Asherman from Rabbis for Human Rights.
* On 28 April, tens of
settlers from the Susya settlement to the southeast of Yatta, attacked Internationals
and Israelis peace groups and residents that were demonstrating on the land near
the settlement under a confiscation order. Hafiz Huraini, member of the Local
council in Tuwani village said when we went to the land, which is located 300
meters to the northwest of the settlement, around 50 settlers arrived, some of
them armed. They threw stones, pointed guns and break the windshields of cars.
* On 29 April, 30-year-old
female settler, attempted to kidnap a three-year-old child, Mohammed Ayman Ja’bari.
The settler stopped her car on the main street near the Rajabi building, occupied
by settlers in March and tried to take the child. She failed when tens of
residents gathered and forced her to let the boy go. The family made complaints
with the police from the nearby station and opened a legal case about the
event. The same day, a group of settlers from Qiryat Arba stoned Na’eem Da’na
in Wadi Nassara to the south of the settlement. Da’na reported that during the
night the settlers threw stones on the house and they screamed bad words
against Arabs and against Prophet Mohammed, like Death to Arabs.
Bethlehem Region
* On 17 April, at six in the evening, a settler from Teqoa settlement to
the southeast of Bethlehem, who was driving his car on the main road of the
Palestinians village of Toqo’, stopped his car, got out and began to shoot on
some children. The eyewitness Issa Husain Sahe’r, reports that The settler
later ran after the three children inside an olive grove, and continued
shooting from his pistol, which caused the injury of Haitham Ali Khalf, 14 years
old. He was injured in his head seriously and took to the local clinic, later
transported to Beit Jala hospital .The settler claimed that the children were
throwing stones at his car while he was driving through from the Efrat settlement to the west of the
village, to Teqoa settlement to the southeast of the village.
* During the last week of April, settlers from the Betar Illit settlement
to the west of the village of Hussan, west of Bethlehem District, entered the
land belong to Raji Sabateen from Hussan each day, and damaged the stones wall
and the fence, uprooting trees on that land. The land is located inside the fence
of the settlement, despite the fact that the family of Sabateen had recieved a decision
from the Israeli Supreme Court that they can work in the land and it is not
confiscated. On the other side, the settlers have committed many aggressions,
from time to time to forcing the family not to come and work the land. Many
complaints were raised to the police station in Kefar Etziyon, but no positive
response was given and the settlers go on in the attacks.
Nablus and north of West Bank
* On 1 April, hundreds
of settlers, who periodically come to the place where Homesh settelment was before
it was dismantled in September 2005, uprooted more than a 1000 olive trees and
other types of trees from land belonging to families from Borqa village in Jenin
District. According to Fateen Salah, from the Popular Committee Against the Settlements
and Separation Wall, the settlers also damaged some water pipes and agriculture
shacks. On 24 April, a group of settlers entered the nearby Bazaria village in
the evening and opened the fire on the houses, storming some cars in the streets
of the village. The driver Radi Hijja said that the settlers stoned my car
while I was driving it on the main road and broken the glasses of it. When I
tried to speak with them they threatened me and some of them threw stones on me
so I run away from the place.
* On April 17, the
settlers started working the land belonging to families from Jaloud village in
the north of West Bank. The Local Council Chairman
Abdllah Twfeeq said that in the last days, the settlers from Shilo and Shvut
Rachel settlements and other outposts near the village started the work in a place
called Mobasher and if they continue the work around 100 dunam will be
confiscated.
* On 27 April, Israeli
soldiers prevented farmers from Kufor Laqef village in Qalqilia Districit to
work and to be in their land that is located near the Shave Shomron settlement.
The soldiers ordered the farmers to be at least 100 meters away from the fence
of the settlement. The residents claimed that this action of the soldiers was a
continuation of the aggressions that the settlers have used against them when
they come to work in the land in the past months.
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