Violation: ravaging 251 olive trees.
Location: southern side of Qusra – Nablus.
Date: January 1, 2013.
Perpetrators: colonists of Yish Kudish.
Victims: 8 Palestinian families.
Details:
Israeli colonists celebrated the new year’s eve by ravaging 251 olive trees in Al Wa’ar area in Qusra. At 00:15 on January 1, 2013, a large group of colonists broke into the village coming from Yish Kudish colony; the colonists raided Abdul Majid Hasan residence and destroyed a lot of contents in addition to breaking windows and doors. The colonists then headed to the olive fields in the area and ravaged 251 olive trees aged 4-6 years. The colonists, who were covered by Israeli troops, used saws and axes in the attack.
Table 1: victims of the colonists attack:
No. | Victim | Family members | Children | Lost trees | remarks |
1 | Anwar Odeh | 9 | 2 | 69 | Targeted previously |
2 | Noman abu Rida | 7 | 3 | 36 | |
3 | Samir Hasan | 5 | 2 | 6 | Targeted previously |
4 | Jabali abu Rida | 9 | 4 | 56 | Targeted previously |
5 | Abdul Azim Odeh | 11 | 4 | 22 | Targeted previously |
6 | Adli abu Rizq | 5 | 2 | 12 | |
7 | Ali Hasan | 5 | 3 | 20 | Targeted previously |
8 | Bahjat Hasan | 7 | 2 | 30 | Targeted previously |
Total | 58 | 22 | 251 | ||
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It is worthy to mention that Al Wa’ar and Qita’ kamel areas in Qusra have been constantly targeted; over 6 similar attacks were recored in the last year only.
Qusra:
It is located 18 km to the south east of Nablus city and is administered by Qusra village Council. Its total area is 9878 dunums that include 776 dunums of built up area. However, this area does not cover the expansion requirements of the village which forced a lot of the locals to build their houses in areas classified ‘C’ according to Oslo. Qusra is inhabited by 4377 people according to the PBS statistics of 2007.
It must be pointed that in 1982, Qusra and the nearby Jurish villages faced a large scale land confiscation campaign in preparation for the establishment of Majdulim colony which now covers an area of 170.6 dunums inhabited by 152 colonists.
