- Violation: Settlers’ assaults.
- Location : Deir Qaddis/ Northwest Ramallah.
- Date: 10/07/2019.
- Perpetrator: Price tag gang.
- Victims: 21 families from the village.
Description:
At the early morning hours of Wednesday, a group of price tag settlers raided the northern area of Deir Qaddis, the fanatic settlers took advantage of the calmness of the night and wrote hatred inciting slogans on the walls of 9 houses , in addition to Deir Qaddis primary school and the town’s old mosque. Nevertheless, the radical settlers slashed the tires of 19 cars parked around the town’s houses.
Noteworthy, Settlers of “Nili” illegal settlement which is 200 m away from Deir Qaddis houses , accused one of the villages residents Mahmoud Qatousa of raping an Israeli underage child , Qatusa was proved innocent in the Israeli supreme court after two weeks in prison, some of the writings on the walls requested the execution of Qatousa.
The following table shows more information about the damages left in Deir Qaddis:
|
# |
Victims/ affected |
The damages |
|
1 |
The old mosque |
Insulting writings on its walls |
|
2 |
Deir Qaddis primary school |
Insulting writings on its walls |
|
3 |
Mohammad Abu Nasir |
Slashing car tires |
|
4 |
Fayyad Nasser |
Slashing car tires |
|
5 |
Fawzi Shehaiber |
Slashing car tires |
|
6 |
Raed Nasser |
Slashing car tires |
|
7 |
‘Ahed Qatusa |
Slashing car tires |
|
8 |
Khalid Nasser |
Slashing car tires |
|
9 |
Abdullah Nasser |
Slashing car tires |
|
10 |
Yusif Nasser |
Slashing car tires |
|
11 |
Ashraf Awad |
Slashing car tires and writing insulting slogans |
|
12 |
Hassan Nasser |
Slashing car tires and writing insulting slogans |
|
13 |
Salama Qatousa |
Slashing car tires and writing insulting slogans |
|
14 |
Joma’a Shuhaiber |
Slashing car tires and writing insulting slogans |
|
15 |
Shadi Nasser |
Slashing car tires and writing insulting slogans |
|
16 |
Samer Qtousa |
Slashing car tires and writing insulting slogans |
|
17 |
Mohammad Nasser |
Slashing car tires and writing insulting slogans on the walls of his house |
|
18 |
Taher Nasser |
Slashing car tires and writing insulting slogans on the walls of his house |
|
19 |
Mohammad Abu Ashaisha |
Slashing car tires and writing insulting slogans on the walls of his house |
|
20 |
Haitham Qatousa |
Slashing car tires and writing insulting slogans on the walls of his house |
|
21 |
Mohammad Qatousa |
Slashing car tires and writing insulting slogans on the walls of his house |
|
22 |
Basim Nasser |
Slashing car tires and writing insulting slogans on the walls of his house |
Source: First hand field observation- Israeli violations monitoring section- LRC , July 2019
One of the victims, Haitham Qatousa told LRC reporter:
“The attack was expected , the radical settlers always take advantage of the night’s quietness in order to carry out attacks . There are videos that document the attacks, we filed a complaint to the Israeli police supported by the videos, but nothing was done to stop such attacks from occurring.”
Settlers’ 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. In spite of all the complaints charged through Palestinian cooperation to the Israeli government, the last party did not do anything to stop these assaults.
About Deir Qaddis:[1]
Deir Qaddis is located 25 km west Ramallah and bordered by Shabteen (north), Na’alin (west), Kharabtha Bani Harith (east) and Bala’en (south). Deir Qaddis is populated 2452 in 2017, and has a total area of 8,051 dunums , of which 518 are the town’s built up area.
Israeli built illegal colonies “Na’ale” and Nili on the northern area of the town, and “Kiryat Sefer” in the southern area.
The occupation grabbed 2989 dunums of Deir Qaddis lands for the following purposes:
- Settlements ate up (2,504) dunums:
|
Settlement name |
Establishment year |
Area of confiscated lands |
Number of settlers 2018 |
confiscated lands from Deir Qaddis |
|
Na’ale |
1982 |
418 |
1871 |
Part of the settlement |
|
Kiryat Sefer |
1991 |
1,704 |
74,615 |
Part of the settlement |
|
Matityahu |
1980 |
13 |
871 |
Part of the settlement |
|
Nili |
1981 |
369 |
1,787 |
Part of the settlement |
2 – Bypass roads number 446 and 463 devoure 355 dunums.
3- The segregation wall is 1,944 m, ate up 194 dunums and blocked 1,816 dunums.
4- Military camps grabbed 130 dunums.
Oslo conventions divided the land as the following:
- B area: (643) dunums.
- C area: (7,408) dunums.
[1] GIS-LRC
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