Colonists of Zet Ranan Ravage 49 olive trees

October 23, 2012

Violation: ravaging 49 olive trees.

Date: October 19-22, 2012.

Perpetrators: colonists of Zet Ranan.

Victims: farmers of Al Janya and Deir Ammar villages.

Details:

Deir Ammar was a subject to a new Israeli attack on November 19, 2012 when a group of Israeli colonists ravaged and cut 31 trees in the area known as ‘Uyoon an Nabi Anbar’ to the north east of the village. The trees are property of 3 families of Deir ammar:

Victim	Family members	Children	Damaged trees	remarks
The sons of Ahmad Awawda			9	Partially cut
Hasan Awawda	8	1	9	Partially cut
Fayeq Badaha	6	2	13	Partially cut
total	14	3	31

Source: Field Observations – Monitoring Israeli Human Rights Violations Team – LRC

Picture 1-5: inflicted damage

Fayeq Badaha, one of the victims, commented on the attack by saying: ‘we have been facing problems every olive picking season since the 1980s but the problem became more obvious in the last decade. We are facing a vicious colonial attack which increases in this season.‘

Mahmoud Radwan, head of the Municipal Council of Deir Ammar, Bitillo, and Jamala, said: ‘this area suffers from day-to-day aggressions against the lands and olive trees. The colonists consider the area as a Jewish heritage site so they are trying to take over it by any means necessary‘.

Torching trees to alter history:

48 hours later, the herds of colonists placed gasoline containers inside 18 ‘Roman’ olive trees before setting them alight from the inside in order to inflict as much damage as possible.

The term Roman comes to indicate the long life of the trees as the estimated age of these trees is 300 years or even more.

After centuries of giving, the herds of colonists come to simply cut their age short. The general Palestinian impression is that these inhuman colonists are nothing but brutal gangs with nothing but destruction in their minds.

Victim	Family members	Children	Torched trees	Location	remarks
Fayeq Badaha	6	2	9	Deir Ammar	4 destroyed, 5 torched partially
Saher Awawda	10	3	4	Deir Ammar	Torched partially
Ayed Mazloum	5	1	5	Al Janya	6 destroyed, 12 partially torched
Total	21	6	18