Violation: cutting 31 olive trees.
Date: August 25, 2012.
Perpetrators: colonists of Maon.
Victim: Ali Rib’i.
Details:
On August 25, 2012, colonists of Maon cut 31 olive trees in Al Hamra area near At Tawani. The owner of the trees, Ali Rib’I said: ‘a relative called me and told me that there are trees that were cut and broken in Al Hamra. As soon as I got there could see 31 trees cut down. Saw marks were visible. I had with me an international activist who called the Israeli Occupation Army and informed them of the attack. Soon afterwards, soldiers came with a tracker who tracked the assailants to Maon colony.‘
He also said that he went to the Police station in Kiryat Arbaa colony where he met an officer with the name Avitai; he filed an official complaint.
He said that the colonists tend to prevent the farmers from accessing their lands and that they deprived 17 people from a major source of income. Coherently, at the beginning of August, Israeli troops placed cement blocks at the entrance of Al Hamra area; it was written ‘shooting ground’ on the blocks. It must be known that the entrance leads to a number of small Palestinian villages which are threatened of evacuation.
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Agriculture