Settlers vandalize Palestinian properties in Iskaka village / Salfit governorate

• Violation: vandalizing car tire and writing hatred inciting slogans.
• Location: Iskaka village / East Salfit city.
• Date: 14/02/2019.
• Perpetrator: price tag gang.
• Victims: number of families from the village.

Description:

A group of price tag gangsters sneaked into the western block of Iskaka village and vandalized several Palestinian properties.

Colonists’ 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. The most vicious attack was the torching of Dawabsheh family while sleeping on August 2015, the same group of gangsters carried out many attacks in Salfit governorate varying from cutting down aging trees to shutting down agricultural roads and confiscating vast area of lands to serve the colonial expansion in the area. The following table shows more about the attack:

Source: first hand field observation – Israeli violations monitoring section – LRC , February 2019

Gangsters of such type are reported taught the ideology of far- right wing parties in Israel. “Hatred for Arabs” and “kill them all” are some of their slogans. 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

Iskaka:[1]

The village of Iskaka is located 4 kilometers east of the city of Salfit on a top of a hill overlooking the nearby village of Yasouf. According to the PCBS’s 2007 census, the population of Iskaka is about 1230. The main clans of the village are Harb, Taher, Lami, Hameida in addition to some smaller clans the roots of whom can be traced to the village of Al Teira located in the 1948 Palestine. The total area of the village is about 18,000 dunums while its built-up area is 600 dunum. 

[1] GIS- LRC