Violation: Slashing car tires and smashing glass of Palestinian vehicles.

Location : Huwara / Nablus governorate.

Date: March 15^th 2020.

Perpetrators: The “Price tag” group.

Victims: People of Huwara.

Description:

Sunday 12:30 , tens of radical settlers from Yitzhar settlement raided the western area of “Huwara”, then smashed the glass and slashed the tires of 15 vehicles that belong to Abdullah Al-Huwari company from the village.

Owner of the company , citizen Abdullah Odeh told LRC:

“Tens of settlers from the price tag gang attacked cars parked in the Country Huwara park , then smashed the glass and slashed the tires of 15 vehicles, people of the village gathered in the town to defend their properties, the perpetrators ran away  and kept firing towards the area’s people , until they left.

Apparently , settlers were waiting for the hikers to leave to carry out their attack, at 12:30 am the park was empty so they raided the area.”

About Huwara: [1]

8km south of Nablus, Huwara is located on bypass road no. 60 that links the north of the West Bank to its south and known as “the street of death” in reference to the many car accidents that take place there. The municipality of Huwara rehabilitated the road and installed warnings but the Israeli occupation still hinders any attempts at restoring the road and does not approve any signs or warnings.

Huwara is inhabited by 6659 people (according to 2017 projections). It has a total area of 8,520 dunums, 1116 of which are built-up area of the village.

The Israeli occupation confiscated 331 dunums for the establishment of Yitzhar colony.

Besides, bypass number 60 confiscated more than 430 dunums of the village lands.

Yitzhar:[2]

The colony of Yitzhar was built in 1983 on the lands of Boren and Qibliya lands, southwest Nablus. It was built as an outpost but soon expanded by confiscating 10 dunums from the villages of Boren, Qibliya, 'Urif, Madama, and Huwara. The built-up area of the colony is estimated to be 269 dunums while the area of the confiscated land is 1223 dunums (source : Foundation for Middle East Peace)

Yitzhar is founded within the natural block no.8 on the shrine of a great Muslim leader called Salman the Persian (Salman al- Farsi), after whom the mountain surrounding the area is named.

[1] GIS-LRC

[2] GIS-LRC

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