- Violation: Sabotaging Palestinian properties.
- Location: Sinjil village / North Ramallah.
- Date: 24/06/2019.
- Perpetrator: “Price tag” gangsters.
- Victims: 14 families from the town.
Description:
In the early morning hours of Monday , 24 June 2019, a group of fanatic troops that are related to the Price Tag gang raided Sinjil to an area also known as “Al-Mazria’a” north the town , which is close to bypass 6 that leads to “Shvout Rachel” .
The racist settlers wrote racist and hatred slogans on several spots, and slashed the tires of 13 cars. They also wrote slogans on the walls of 4 houses , such as : “Here lives the terrorists” , “We give your children Jobs , and you kill our children” , “Here lives the saboteurs” and “Long live Israel”.
The following table shows more information about the damages:
|
# |
Affected citizen |
Nature of the damage |
|
1 |
Haitham Faqha |
Slashing car tires |
|
2 |
Omar Faqha |
Slashing car tires |
|
3 |
Mohammad Faqha |
Slashing car tires |
|
4 |
Thaer Faqha |
Slashing car tires |
|
5 |
Musa Asfour |
Slashing car tires |
|
6 |
Mohammad Asfour |
Slashing car tires |
|
7 |
Abdulkarim Mohammad |
Slashing car tires |
|
8 |
Mohammad Faqha |
Slashing car tires |
|
9 |
William Faqha |
Slashing car tires and writing hatred inciting slogans |
|
10 |
Jamal Asfour |
Slashing car tires and writing hatred inciting slogans |
|
11 |
Samih Asfour |
Slashing car tires and writing hatred inciting slogans on the walls of a house |
|
12 |
Rafat Asfour |
Slashing car tires and writing hatred inciting slogans on the walls of a house |
|
13 |
Naji Faqha |
Slashing car tires and writing hatred inciting slogans on the walls of a house |
|
14 |
Mohammad Masalma |
writing hatred inciting slogans on the walls of a house |
Source: Firsthand field observation- Israeli violations monitoring section – LRC , June 2019
Photos of the violations
Mutaz Tawafsha head of Sinjil municipality told LRC reporter:
“Such assaults repeatedly occur in Sinjil, as there is nothing to stop settlers from attacking and harassing Palestinians even in their own homes. After the recent attack, we called the Liaison office in order to file complain to the Israeli police, the later showed up and documented the assaults, but as usually no measurement will be taken to stop such assaults from occurring.
In fact, this attack is the second of its type during this year, in 27 August, Price tag gangsters slashed the tires of 33 cars in addition to writing hatred inciting slogans on several spots, and the Israeli police and government did not do anything to stop such attacks from occurring.”
About Sinjil[1]:
20 kilometer north of Ramallah, Sinjil is surrounded by Al Labn Ash Sharqia (north), ‘Abween and Jaljilia (west), Qaryut and Turmus’ayya (east), and Al Mazr’a Ash sharqia (south).
Sinjil has a total population of 5742 people according to statistics conducted in 2017. It has a total area of 14028of which 888 are a built-up area of the village.
The Israeli occupation devoured 551 dunums of the lands of the village for two colonies. The first one is Maale Levona which was built in 1983 and confiscated 298 dunums of the village, and inhabited by 497 colonists. The second is Eli which was built in 1984 and devoured 253 dunums, and inhabited by 2058 colonists.
Moreover, bypass number ’60 took over 246 dunums of the village lands.
According to Oslo Accords, 14% of Sinjil is under Area A (PA has full civil and security control) while 30% is under Area B (PA is in charge of civil matters with Israel responsible for security). However, most of the village lands (56%) is under Area C (Israel maintains full security and administrative control). Here are the area in dunums:
- Area A (1980) dunums
- Area B (4140) dunums
- Area C (7908) dunums
[1] GIS-LRC
Prepared by
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