Hebron Region
On the afternoon of 6 June, 24 year-old Najah Abed El Hai Abu S'aifan was beaten
by 10 settlers while she was walking with her sons near her home to the west
of Kiryat Arba.
On 11 June, settlers from Bat Ayin settlement, near the town of Beit Ummar to the north
of Hebron, renewed attacks on Palestinian land by releasing their goats and sheep
in residents’ fields. Farmer and town resident Mohammed Sulaibe said that
hundreds of goats and sheep belonging to settlers destroyed his grape fields.
This is not the first time that such attacks have happened. Only two weeks ago
a similar attack took place and, although the villagers went to the police station
and filed a complaint, Israeli officials have done little to stop the settlers
from continuing their abuse.
On 13 June, settlers from Kiryat Arba and the outposts in downtown Hebron attacked many
places inside the city. The attacks happened in waves throughout the day. In
the morning, settlers from Abraham Avino outpost stoned houses and residents in
the streets near Ibhahimi Mosque. In the evening, settlers from Kiryat Arba'
attacked houses to the west and south of the settlement, stoning the houses of Sa'dee
Jaber and Imad Rajabi. In southern Yatta, settlers from Ma'on attacked several farmers
and shepherds, attempting to pressure them to leave their land bordering the
settlement. Some physical clashes occurred between the settlers and the
farmers, and Adham Ahmad Shawaheen, age 16, suffered injuries to the face. Soldiers
arriving on the scene detained some residents for an hour, and the settlers fled.
According to Ahmad Shawaheen, the settlers used to attack farmers in Ma’in, to
the west of Ma’on, with the aim of confiscating land.
On 19 June, a group of settlers from the outpost of Havat Ma'on, southeast of
Yatta, attacked some families in the village of Umm Toba with large
sticks and stones. Soldiers eventually came and forced the settlers to leave.
Settlers often attack families in the area in order to pressure them to leave
their land so it may be confiscated for the expansion of nearby settlements,
like Ma'on and the aforementioned outpost.
On the afternoon of 20 June, Talab Ishaq Jabber was taken to 'Alya Hospital after seven
settlers from Kiryat Arba, some of them armed, stoned him, causing injuries to
the head. He had been walking in Wadi Hussein, near his home west of the settlement,
when the event occurred.
On 21 June, five young settlers from Ramot Yashai in downtown Hebron threw stones at children
in nearby Tel Rumeida. The Palestinian children were forced to return home to
avoid the settlers’ attacks. Two days earlier, the same thing happened when a group
of young settlers tried to attack children who had been playing near their
homes.
On 21 June, settlers from Ramot Yashai renewed stoning attacks on the residents of
Tel Rumeida, damaging the house of Adel Is'eed. That same day, 20 settlers from
Kiryat Arba', some of them armed, entered land belonging to the Jaber family,
to the west of the settlement. Soldiers, who were already on the scene, forced the
Jaber family to leave one hour before the arrival of the settlers. The settlers
have wanted to take over the eight dunams of land for months. Two months ago,
they uprooted approximately 60 olive trees that had been planted on the land.
On the evening of 22 June, a group of settlers from Kiryat Arba threw stones at
residents’ houses. Some windows were broken in the house of Sa'di Jaber, west
of the settlement.
On 23 June, a child, Ibraheem Mohammed Abu Aisha, was injured in the back when
some young settlers from Ramot Yashai stoned him while he was playing near his
home in Tel Rumeida, near the outpost.
On 23 June, Yousef Isma'eel Nawaj'a, a 29 year-old resident of the village of Susya was taken to local clinic after three
settlers from the nearby Susiya settlement attacked him in an effort to force
him out his land to the west of the settlement.
On 26 June, settlers from Susiya settlement, to the east of Yatta, burned wheat
crops belonging to the farmer Ishaq Jabareen of the village of Qwawis. Soldiers
prevented the Yatta Municipality fire engine from accessing the area to extinguish the fire.
Northern West Bank
At noon on 2 June, a group of settlers from Tappuah settlement in the Nablus district tried to
attack three children from the village of Huwwara. Mohmoud Idrees Odeh, age 12, Ahmad Najeeb Odeh, age 11, and Belal
Mohammed Odeh, age 13, were walking south of the village when the settlers came
and threatened them. The children escaped to a nearby house. When nearby residents
gathered to protect the children, the settlers fled back to Tappuah.
According to locals from the village, Huwwara residents have been targets of
occasional settler attacks for years.
On 6 June, bulldozers started building a new settlement road for Shave Shomeron
settlement, near the village of Deir Sharaf. According to the plan, the road will be two kilometers long. The
chairman of the local council in the village, Mohammed Abu Halawa, reports that
the effect of the new road is not only the facilitation of future land confiscation,
but also the isolation of approximately 1,000 dunums of land that will be cut
off by the road, causing many difficulties for the farmers trying to work their
land.
On 20 June, approximately 10 dunums of land belonging to Omar Ahmad Hamza from
Kufor Sour, in the Tulkarm district, were leveled and damaged in an effort to
prepare the land for the water pipes of Sal'it settlement.
In the early hours of the morning on 23 June, four settlers from Yits’har
settlement entered the village of Einabus in the Nablus district. The settlers burned three cars belonging to Mohammed Khalaf
Abu Shihada, Isma'eel Abed El Kareem Abi Shihada and Ahmad Khalaf Abi Shihada.
When the residents discovered the burning vehicles, the settlers fled back to Yits’har.
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