- Violation : Sabotaging Palestinian properties.
- Location : Deir Istiya village / Salfit governorate.
- Date: 18/06/2019.
- perpetrators: “Price tag” settlers.
- Victims: 23 families from the village.
Description:
At 2:00 am of Tuesday 18th of 2019, a group of settlers raided the southern west neighborhood in Deir Istiya, in an area known as (Al-Khayousa and An-Najema), where they wrote hatred inciting slogans such as : (this is the town of saboteurs) , (stones bring killing) , (stop throwing rocks on settlers’ cars) ,(long living the people of Israel), (people of Israel are alive), (long living the David star), in addition to slashing 23 car tires.
Activist Rezq Abu Nasser told LRC reporter:
“In the recent years Deir Istiya’s people witnessed several attacks that aim to discourage their will , the Israeli occupation army and settlers work to take over wide areas of lands and Judaizing the area, And while Deir Istiya is the largest town in Salfit governorate , the occupation prohibited physical expansion and profiting of Wadi Qana plots, while settlers are devouring more lands and expanding settlements more and more.”
The following table shows detailed information about the attack:
|
# |
Affected citizen |
Nature of the damages |
|
1 |
Nitham Abdullah |
Slashing car tires |
|
2 |
Jamal Al-Khateeb |
Slashing car tires |
|
3 |
Mohammad Ajarmeh |
Slashing car tires |
|
4 |
Hassan Ajarmeh |
Slashing car tires |
|
5 |
Izzat Aqel |
Slashing car tires |
|
6 |
Abdul Salam As-Salman |
Slashing car tires |
|
7 |
Amer Qaddus |
Slashing car tires |
|
8 |
Mohammad Al-Masri |
Slashing car tires |
|
9 |
Nidal Saed |
Slashing car tires |
|
10 |
Mu’tassem Salman |
Slashing car tires |
|
11 |
Ali Abdul Razeq |
Slashing car tires |
|
12 |
Nitham Salman |
Slashing car tires |
|
13 |
Bashar Saed |
Slashing car tires and writing hatred inciting slogans on its doors |
|
14 |
Kamal Awad |
Slashing car tires and writing hatred inciting slogans on its doors |
|
15 |
Sameer Al-Qadi |
Slashing car tires and writing hatred inciting slogans on its doors |
|
16 |
Hazim Al0- Khafsh |
Writing hatred inciting slogans on the house walls |
|
17 |
Majid As-Salman |
Slashing car tires and writing slogans on the house walls |
|
18 |
Khalid Suliman |
Slashing car tires and writing slogans on the house walls |
|
19 |
Abdul Mu’ti As-Salman |
writing slogans on the house walls |
|
20 |
Ahmad Abdullah |
Slashing car tires and writing slogans on the house walls |
|
21 |
Hussni Salman |
writing slogans on the house walls |
|
22 |
Omar Suliman |
Slashing car tires and writing slogans on the house walls |
Source: Firsthand field observation- Israeli violations monitoring section – LRC , June 2019
Deir Istiya village:
10 km north Salfit , Deir Istiya is surrounded by Ematin , Jinsafut and Kafr Laqif (north), Azzun and Kafar Thulth (west), Zita, Jama’en and Kafl Haris (east), Haris and Qaraqwat Bani Hyssan (south)
Deir Istiya has a population of (3,696) people in 2017 census.
The town has a total area of 34,125, of which 640 dunums are a built up area.
- The Israeli occupation confiscated (4,257) dunums for the following purposes:
|
Settlement name |
Establishment year |
Area in dunums |
Number of settlers 2018 |
|
Revava |
1991 |
167 |
2,664 |
|
Yakir |
1981 |
757 |
2,341 |
|
Ginat Shomron |
1985 |
944 |
NA |
|
Karnei Shomron |
1978 |
540 |
8,388 |
|
Novim |
1986 |
663 |
867 |
|
Immanuel |
1981 |
879 |
4,220 |
|
Ma’ale Shomron |
1980 |
52 |
1,002 |
|
Al-Matan |
1981 |
22 |
NA |
- Bypass roads 55 and 5066 devoured 118 dunums.
- The segregation wall (1,148 m ate up115 dunums , in case its construction plan was completed it will isolate 8,408 dunums and eat up 160 dunums.
Oslo accords classified Deir Istiya as the following :
- B area : 6,132 dunums.
- C area 27,993 dunums.
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