Violation: cutting 20 olive seedlings down.
Location: Burin – Nablus.
Date: May 12, 2013.
Victim: Qasem Umran.
Details:
Qasem Umran, 67, planted a field located in al Asreeb are in Burin village with olive seedlings in an attempt to stop the Israeli colonial blight. However, on May 12, 2013, a group of colonists uprooted the seedlings under the protection of Israeli troops.
Targeting olive trees in Burin has become a usual scene as the colonists, protected by the Israeli Police and Army commit their crimes against the Palestinian olive and people. That in addition to some of the Jewish religious views that call for "killing Arabs and cutting the trees that symbolize their existence".
Jamal al Zain, Head of Burin Village Council, remarked: "attacking olives is one of the routine activities of the colonists who intened to spread detruction in the area. Since the establishment of Yizhar and Baracha colonies in the 1980s, Burin has been subjected to a fierce attack that included capturing half of its land. The colonists distorted the calmness of the village with one purpose in their mind, capturing the land and removing the people by any means necessary. The Israeli Police and Judicial System is conspiring with those colonists; the owners headed to Israeli Courts to stop the assaults, however, despite providing numerous documents to prove their ownership, all their complaints and court cases were brushed aside.
This indicates how the Israeli Judicial System, which they claim that is just and developed is nothing but a corrupted system that works towards the implementation of the colonial plans; the victims are hundreds of olive trees and tens of youth".
