Illegal Settlers of “Barkan” Assault Palestinian Properties in Sarta / Salfit Governorate
- Violation: Writing hatred inciting slogans and slashing car tires.
- Location: Sarta village west Salfit.
- Date: 27/06/2019.
- Perpetrators : Illegal settlers of “Barkan”.
- Victims: number of families from the town.
Description:
At the early morning hours of Thursday 27th of June 2019 , a group of settlers from the Illegal settlement “Barkan” sneaked into Sarta and wrote hatred inciting slogans in Hebrew on several spots. The slogans included “Death for Arabs” , “Here lives the terrorists”, “People of Israeli are alive”.
In addition to that, the fanatic troops slashed the tires of 4 cars that were parked on the street side.
The following table shows more information about the damages and the owners:
|
# |
Affected citizen |
Nature of the damages |
|
1 |
Abdullah Sarsour |
Writing hatred inciting slogans on the walls of his house and slashing car tires |
|
2 |
Khalid Sarsour |
Writing hatred inciting slogans on the walls of his house and slashing car tires |
|
3 |
Ali Salah |
slashing car tires |
|
4 |
Rafat Salah |
Writing hatred inciting slogans on the walls of his house |
|
5 |
Majdi Khateeb |
Writing hatred inciting slogans on the walls of his house |
|
6 |
Ramio Khateeb |
slashing car tires |
Source: firsthand field observation-Israeli violations monitoring section- LRC, June 2019
Ibrahim Abdul Salam head of Sarta village council told LRC reporter:
“People of the village woke up on another assault carried out by terrorist Israeli settlers . We called the Israeli police through the Palestinian Liaison office, they showed up and documented the attack as always, without doing anything that may protect people of Sarta from such attacks.”
Abdul Salam asserted:
“We tried several times to rehabilitate the area and put street lights, but the occupation is prohibiting any developmental projects in the area.”
Photos 1-7: photos showing the damages
About Sarta:[1]
16 km west Salfit city, Sarta is edged by Qarawat Bani Hussan (north), Biddya (west), Haris (east) and Bruqin (south).
Sarta is populated (3,382) people according to PCBS 2017 census.
The village has a total area of 5,615 dunums , of which 457 dunums are a built up area.
Sarta is blocked by “Barkan” and “Ariel” settlements from the east, they also ate up areas of Sarta lands, and “Bruchin” settlement from the south. The occupation confiscated (644) dunums of Sarta lands , exploited in colonization:
- Israeli settlements devoured (375) dunums for the settlements
|
Settlement name |
Establishment year |
Area in dunums |
Number of settlers |
|
Barkan |
1981 |
301 |
1981 * |
|
Barkan industrial area |
1981 |
1.8 |
NA |
|
Ariel industrial area |
NA |
72 |
NA |
*Source: Statistics of The Israeli ministry of interior – 3 January 2019
- – Bypass 5 devoured (150) dunums.
- The segregation wall (in case the plan was completed) , it will eat up (119) dunums, block (3,030) dunums , and will be (4,039) m long.
Oslo accords divided the land as the following:
- B area : (954) dunums.
- C area (4,661) dunums.
[1] GIS-LRC
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