“Price tag” Settlers Sabotage Palestinian Properties in Sinjil Village / Ramallah Governorate

“Price tag” Settlers Sabotage Palestinian Properties in Sinjil Village / Ramallah Governorate
  • Violation: Sabotaging Palestinian properties.
  • Location: Sinjil village / North Ramallah.
  • Date: 24/06/2019.
  • Perpetrator: “Price tag” gangsters.
  • Victims: 14 families from the town.

Description:

In the early morning hours of Monday , 24 June 2019, a group of fanatic troops that are related to the Price Tag gang raided Sinjil to an area also known as “Al-Mazria’a” north the town , which is close to bypass 6 that leads to “Shvout Rachel” .

The racist settlers wrote racist and hatred slogans on several spots, and slashed the tires of 13 cars. They also wrote slogans on the walls of 4 houses , such as : “Here lives the terrorists” , “We give your children Jobs , and you kill our children” , “Here lives the saboteurs” and “Long live Israel”.

The following table shows more information about the damages:

#

Affected citizen

Nature of the damage

1

Haitham Faqha

Slashing car tires

2

Omar Faqha

Slashing car tires

3

Mohammad Faqha

Slashing car tires

4

Thaer Faqha

Slashing car tires

5

Musa Asfour

Slashing car tires

6

Mohammad Asfour

Slashing car tires

7

Abdulkarim Mohammad

Slashing car tires

8

Mohammad Faqha

Slashing car tires

9

William Faqha

Slashing car tires and writing hatred inciting slogans

10

Jamal Asfour

Slashing car tires and writing hatred inciting slogans

11

Samih Asfour

Slashing car tires and writing hatred inciting slogans on the walls of a house

12

Rafat Asfour

Slashing car tires and writing hatred inciting slogans on the walls of a house

13

Naji Faqha

Slashing car tires and writing hatred inciting slogans on the walls of a house

14

Mohammad Masalma

writing hatred inciting slogans on the walls of a house

Source: Firsthand field observation- Israeli violations monitoring section – LRC , June 2019

Photos of the violations

Mutaz Tawafsha head of Sinjil municipality told LRC reporter:

“Such assaults repeatedly occur in Sinjil, as there is nothing to stop settlers from attacking and harassing Palestinians even in their own homes. After the recent attack, we called the Liaison office in order to file complain to the Israeli police, the later showed up and documented the assaults, but as usually no measurement will be taken to stop such assaults from occurring.

In fact, this attack is the second of its type during this year, in 27 August, Price tag gangsters slashed the tires of 33 cars in addition to writing hatred inciting slogans on several spots, and the Israeli police and government did not do anything to stop such attacks from occurring.”

About Sinjil[1]:

20 kilometer north of Ramallah, Sinjil is surrounded by Al Labn Ash Sharqia  (north), ‘Abween and Jaljilia (west), Qaryut and Turmus’ayya (east), and Al Mazr’a Ash sharqia (south).

Sinjil has a total population of 5742 people according to statistics conducted in 2017. It has a total area of 14028of which 888 are a built-up area of the village. 

The Israeli occupation devoured 551 dunums of the lands of the village for two colonies. The first one is Maale Levona which was built in 1983 and confiscated 298 dunums of the village, and  inhabited by 497 colonists. The second is Eli which was built in 1984 and devoured 253 dunums, and inhabited by 2058 colonists.

Moreover, bypass number ’60 took over 246 dunums of the village lands.

According to Oslo Accords, 14% of Sinjil is under Area A (PA has full civil and security control) while 30% is under Area B (PA is in charge of civil matters with Israel responsible for security). However,  most of the village lands (56%) is under Area C (Israel maintains full security and administrative control). Here are the area in dunums:

  • Area A (1980) dunums
  • Area B (4140) dunums
  • Area C (7908) dunums

[1] GIS-LRC

 

Prepared by
 The Land Research Center
LRC

Categories: Israeli Violations