- Violation: Ruining car tires and writing hatred inciting slogans.
- Location: Yasuf / North east Salfit.
- Date: 18/12/2018.
- Perpetrator: “Tapuah” illegal colony.
- Victims: 8 families from the town.
Description:
In the early morning hours of Tuesday, a group of fanatic settlers raided Yasuf town and sabotaged the tires of several Palestinian cars and wrote hatred inciting slogans in Hebrew on number of walls and on Abu Bakr As-Sedeq mosque.
The radical gang left the following damages:
|
# |
Affected citizen |
damages |
|
1 |
Ahmad Yasin |
Writing racist slogans on and ruining the 4 tires of his Opel Astra 1998 car |
|
2 |
Nathmi Yasin |
Writing racist slogans on and ruining the 4 tires of his Skoda car |
|
3 |
Mohammad Hamoudeh |
ruining the 4 tires of his Skoda car 2002 |
|
4 |
Mojahid ‘Etiani |
Writing racist slogans on and ruining the 4 tires of his Volkswagen bora car 2006 |
|
5 |
Samir Yasin |
ruining the 4 tires of his Skoda car 2003 |
|
6 |
Sameer Yasin |
ruining the 4 tires of his Volkswagen Kadi car 2013 |
|
7 |
‘Etiani ‘Etiani |
ruining the 4 tires of his Fiat |
|
8 |
Osama Yasin |
ruining the 4 tires of his Hyundai accent 2013 |
|
9 |
Abu Bakr As-Sedeq mosque |
Writing hatred inciting slogans on the walls of the mosque |
|
10 |
Khalid Ebeyeh |
Writing hatred inciting slogans on the walls and doors of the house |
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Photos 1-6: The damaged cars
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Photo 7-8: Khalid’s house after the attack
Photo 9 : Abu Bakr As-Sedeq mosque
Noteworthy, Yasuf town is targeted by settlers radical gangs, Hafith Abeyeh former head of Yasuf rural council told LRC observer:
“In the recent years price tag gangsters carried on several assaults against people of Yasuf including torching a mosque in 2012, and ruining hundreds of car tires. Nevertheless, Israeli troops frequently close the town via road blocks and prohibit villager from going in or out”
Colonists’ break-ins and arson attacks on Palestinians in the suburb areas are meant to terror and harass Palestinian citizens to push them out of their areas. The most vicious attack was the torching of Dawabsheh family while sleeping on August 2015, the same group of gangsters carried out many attacks in Salfit governorate varying from cutting down aging trees to shutting down agricultural roads and confiscating vast area of lands to serve the colonial expansion in the area
Yasuf:[1]
It is 16km south of Nablus. Yasuf is surrounded by Huwara and Jamma’in (north), Marda (west), Yatma (east), and Iskaka (south).
Yasuf is inhabited by 2090 people (according to 2013 projections). It has a total area of 6037 dunums, 330 of which are built-up area of the village.
The Israeli occupation confiscated 814 dunums for these two colonies: Kfar Tapuah colony which was built on Yasuf lands in 1978. The colony is inhabited by 523 colonists and Rachelim- Shvut that was built in 1991 and devoured 10 dunums.
Besides, the bypass road number 508 confiscated more than 155 dunums of the village lands.
According to Oslo Accords, only 1427 dunums of Yasuf lands are under Area B (PA is in charge of civil matters with Israel responsible for security) while most of Yasuf is under Area C (Israel maintains full security and administrative control). About of 4609 dunums of Yasuf is in area C.
[1] GIS-LRC
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