2019-04-01

“Price Tag” settlers sabotage Palestinian properties in Beit Hanina / Occupied Jerusalem

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In the early morning hours of Monday , April 1st , a group of fanatic settlers from “Pizgat Ze’ev” illegal settlement  sneaked into a neighborhood and started smashing glass of cars and vandalizing their tires , they also wrote racist slogans on the parked cars, as seen on security cameras. The attack caused damages to 6 private cars.

The written slogans included “Death for Arabs” , “Death for killers”, “We are not a sleep” and “Transfer for Arabs”, Price Tag gangsters are active in Jerusalem , the occupied territories of 1948 and West Bank , they are extremist religious group who call for killing Arabs  or force them to leave their lands.

Colonists’ break-ins and arson attacks on Palestinians communities 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.

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.

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About Beit Hanina:[1]

5 km north Jerusalem, Beit Hanina is surrounded by Bir Nabala (north), Beit Hanina down town (Bait Hanina town was divided to two parts by the Apartheid wall Upper Beit Hanaina and Beit Hanina down town) (west), Hizma (east) and Shufat (south). Beit Hanina has a population of 33,617 people in 2009, and an area of (8,877) , (3,341) dunums are a built up area.

The occupation confiscated over 3700 dunums for the following purposes:

Illegal colonies confiscated (3064) dunums as follows:


colony



Establishing year



Area of confiscated lands/ dunums



Number of settlers



Neve Yaacov



1972



575,5



20,250



Pisgat Amir



1985



684



unavailable



Pisgat Zeev



1985



1,458



38, 684



Ramat Shlomo



1990



346



12,822


Bypass roads (50 +60) confiscated over 482 dunums.

Apartheid wall took over 50 dunums and has a length of (987) meters.

Occupation's military camps took over (103) dunums.




[1] GIS-LRC