- Violation: Beating a contractor, burning two vehicles and smashing bulldozer windows
- Location: Turmusaya town / Ramallah and Al-Bireh governorate.
- Violation date: 23/06/2022 AD.
- The perpetrator: a group of Jewish settlers.
- Affected party: citizen Khaled Ghazi Abdullah Sa’ad.
The violation details:
On Thursday afternoon, June 23, 2022, a group of Jewish settlers beat the contractor Khaled Ghazi Abdullah Sa’ad, burned his two vehicles and smashed the windows of his bulldozer while he was working on a piece of land in the “Marj Zaba’” area, north of the town of Turmusaya, within the area classified as zone “B” of the Oslo Accord.
It must be added that the pastoral colonial outpost in the “Al Muraba’a” area, north of the town of Turmusaya, is considered one of the most important challenges facing the agricultural sector and farmers in the town of Turmusaya.
The brother of the victim, Mr. Nidal Ghazi Abdullah, told LRC’s field researcher the following: “My brother Khaled was rehabilitating a plot of land owned by a farmer from the town of Turmusaya, and he was surprised at about 11 p.m. by the arrival of 45 settlers dressed in religious custom. As soon as they have arrived at the site they attacked two cars belonging to my brother and me by breaking their windows, the first of which is a dodge ram, model 2014, and the second is Citroen, model 2016. After that, the attackers beat my brother and pushed him from a high top, causing him several fractures in the jaw, nose, head and hand as well. Then, the attackers smashed the windows of our bulldozer and threw flammable material inside the two cars turning them to ashes. Me and my brother work independently in a contracting company responsible for the rehabilitation of roads and cultivating of land in the area. We live in the village of Al Mazra’a Al Sharqiah, northeast of Ramallah. I support a family of five, including three females, and my brother Khaled supports a family of six amongst them are three females”.
It is noteworthy that the town of Turmusaya is constantly exposed to attacks by the Jewish settlers, due to the presence of three new random outposts on the town’s lands, in addition to the settlements of “Shilo” and “Adi Aad”. According to LRC’s field monitoring a large number of settlers’ attacks in recent years were directed against trees, land and farmers in this particular area.
