Colonists sabotage olive saplings in Yatta

January 10, 2015

• Violation:  sabotaging olive seedlings
• Date:  10/01/2015
• Location:  Ghezaiwi / Yatta
• Perpetrators: extreme colonists
• Victims:   citizens from Yatta

Details:

After the end of a snow storm that hit the Palestinian territories in mid December 2014, citizen Yousef Shatat went to check on his land  and trees in the area of Ghezaiwi, southeast  Yatta. Shatat(65)  said that he was surprised when he reached his land to find out that a big number of his trees and the neighboring trees were uprooted and that some of which were sabotaged. "Other trees were sunk in mud" , said he.

Shatated immediately phone called farmers whose lands were affected by the attack; famers came to the place and  called police to come examine the scene. In this regard, police collected evidences , wrote down farmers' testimonies and informed the affected citizens that a case will be opened in this regard in the Police Center of Qiryat Arba colony. Farmers should approach the police center to give testimonies regarding the  complaint, which was given the number 20, a police man to farmers.

It should be marked that the affected farmers accused Susiya colonists in carrying out the attack on their lands; Susiya colony is located to south of Ghezaiwi area and is about 1km away from it. Noteworthy, the attacked lands are located west to the bypass road no. 317. The following table shows information about the affected citizen and their lands :

Source: Field Observations – Monitoring Israeli Human Rights Violations- Land Research Center-2015

It should be marked that the attacked trees age between 3-7 years; farmers planted the affected trees at their own expense.

Photos1-7: signs of the attack on the trees

Prepared by
The Land Research Center
LRC