Land Research Center

Violation: vandalization acts

Location:  Jalud village

Date:  April 25, 2018

Perpetrators: Price Tag colonists

Victims: residents from the town

Details:

At down of April 25, 2018, a group of fanatic colonists relative to Price Tag gang slashed tires of several cars and wrote discrimination slogans on walls in Jalud village, south Nablus city.

Reportedly, the group who sneaked into the village at dawn and carried out the attack while residents were asleep come from Ahya outpost that is founded on confiscated lands from the village.

The chairman of Jalud village council, Abdallah Tawfiq, told Land Research Center that four vehicles got their tires slashed and that five houses were vandalized with hate writings on them.

Photos 1-4: the attacked cars and some of the hatred slogans

Price-tag group:

 A terrorist group that is comprised of right wing activists carrying out systematic  and/or 'strategic' attacks all over the West Bank, including Jerusalem, and the 1948-occupied Palestine under the protection and support of the Israeli Army. The price-tag campaign includes attacks on Palestinian-owned property like lands, crops and vehicles as well as attacks on religious sites and writing enticing and offensive slogans among others.  One of its infamous slogans is "A good Arab is a dead one" which openly calls for murder and racism. Most price taggers are Yeshiva students  aged between 18-23 years. They first appeared in 2008 and have been growing since.

About Jalud:

Jalud  is located 29km to the southeast of Nablus city and is edged by Qusra village from the northeast,  Qaryut village from the west, Yesh Kodish and Ahya outposts  from the east and Shilo colony from the south.

Its population mounts up to 598 people (2014 census). Jalud's total land area is 22,473 dunums, of 80 dunums are considered the village's built-up area.

Israeli colonies confiscated 2227 dunums from Jalud lands. Shilo colony that was established in 1978 confiscated 640 dunums from the village. Mizpe Rahel colony and other outposts namely (Yesh Kodish, Ahya, Eli, Adi Ad and Kida) are founded on confiscated lands from the village.

Bypass roads confiscated around 436 dunums from the village.

The lands of Marda are classified according to Oslo Accords as the following:

• 5541 dunums (25%) are classified as area B
• 16932 dunums (75%) are classified as area C

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