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Settlers' Attacks

Hebron Region

- In the afternoon on 15 August, approximately six settlers from Kiryat Arba renewed their attacks on Palestinian houses in Wadi Nassara, located south of the settlement. Three houses were stoned by settlers, those belonging to Monder Da'na, Mahmooud Jabber and Na'eem Da'na. The attacks happened while the family of Na'eem Da'na was sitting in their garden. The solders whom arrived on the spot did nothing to stop the settlers.

- On 17 August, settlers tore apart several copies of Koran in the Ibrahimee Mosque during the Jewish festival celebration conducted in the Mosque. The Waqf issued a statement condemning what occurred in the mosque, which is yet another incident of the settlers' aggressions and attacks which have been increasing of late.

- On 17 August, settlers from Kiryat Arba pumped the sewage from their settlement onto the land of residents in Wadi Nassara. Around 30 dunams were affected. The lands belong to many families in the Wadi. The settlers pumped the sewage for three days.

- On 17 August, five armed settlers from the Ramat Yishai outpost stoned the house of Hamed Abu Aisha. Hamed reports that this kind of attack increased over the last three months and that settlers do this daily against houses near the outpost.

- On 21 August in the afternoon, three settlers from the outpost in the downtown of Hebron stoned Abu Yousef Sharabati

- 0n 23 August in the evening, tens of settlers, many of them armed, attacked the residents' houses near the Tel Romaida outpost in the downtown of Hebron. The extreme settler Baruch Marzel led the attacks on the house. Group of settlers tried to lock the house of Hamed Abu Aisha while the residents were inside. Some clashes took place between them and the family. At the same time, around one hundred of settlers attacked numerous houses in several places in the downtown. Five Palestinians were injured near Tel Romaida by stones.

- On 24 August, the settlers from the Tel Romaida outpost in the downtown of Hebron attacked Tayseer Abu Aisha with stones, and he was injured in the back. Abu Aisha reports that "while I am returning to my house near the outpost of Tel Romaida, a group of settlers from the outpost threw stones on my back, I was injured and treated in the clinic. It is not the first time that the settlers attacked me or other members of my family and other families in the place. Daily we are facing attacks from the settlers and the soldiers, whom all the time were in the place but didn't do anything to stop them."

Norther West Bank

The settlers from the Avni Avitz settlement, located south east of Tulkarem, burnt down 150 dunams of olive trees belonging to the Abu Hamdan family from the Shufa village. The burnt land is located near the settlement and according to the Land Defense Committees, the settlers from the mentioned settlement often burnt trees in the land belonging to farmers from the Shufa and Kufor Labad villages, the aim of which is to expand the settlement. In the last year the settlers attacked the farmers and prevented them from working the land or picking the crops.

Land confiscation

- On 15 August, army bulldozers started damaging and leveling the land in Khalet Qoten, south of the Artas village in the Bethlehem district. The work is part of the on going project to build a new bypass road to link the Har Homa settlement in Jerusalem to the settlements in the south east area of Bethlehem district.

- On 16 August, the work on building the road between the Ibraheemi Mosque and Kiryat Arba' continued and many houses were demolished during the work (see previous AIC reports).

- On 18 August, army bulldozers leveled and damaged 359 dunams of olive trees in the Salman village of the Qalqiliya district. The land belongs to the Kizmar, Salamn and Shawahena families. The land is located near the Iron Gate that the army established on the west entrance of the village.

- On 21 August, army bulldozers uprooted around 20 olive trees in the Marda village of the Salfeet district in order to expand the settlement road in the area. The trees belong to Mohammed Ali Hagshi.

- On 21 August, army bulldozers leveled and damaged 60 dunams of olive trees east of the Kfar Dorom settlement in the Dair el Balah city in the Gaza Strip. According to Palestinians sources in the city, the aim of this damage is to expand the fence of the settlement.

- On 27 August, the Israeli authority issued an order to uproot and cut hundreds of olive trees in the Bak'a site, south east of Bethlehem; the aim of the order is to expand settlement road number 86. The trees belong to the Salahat, Abu Ra'ya and Abu Dayya families from the Tako' village. The Mayor of the village, Abu Mofarreh, reports that the expansion of the road is not only used to uproot trees, but will also caused more limitations on development in the village and other villages in the area because the road is very closed to the residents' houses.

- On 29 August, the settlers from 'Atna'eel, south of Yatta, added 4 new mobile houses to the outpost located to the north of this settlement.