2020-06-08
Settlers slash the tires of 11 Palestinian cars in As-Sawiya / Nablus governorate
Israeli violations in the time of Corona
Violation: Slashing car tires.
Location: As-Sawiya village / Nablus governorate.
Date: June 8th 2020.
Perpetrators: Rehalim settlers.
Victims: Citizens from As-Sawiya village.
Description:
Monday June 8th 2020, a group of settlers from “Rehalim” settlement raided As-Sawiya north the village, slashed the tires of 11 cars and wrote hatred inciting slogans on walls of houses, as As-Sawiya village council head Murad Abu Ras told LRC.
Murad asserted: “The security cameras is several shops showed settlers belong to the “Price tag” group slashing car tires and writing racist slogans on a house belongs to Firas Shaheen”.
The targeted cars belong to:
- Adham Fawaz Ahmad Khalil.
- Akram Fawaz Ahmad Khalil.
- Sami Omar Khaleel Salih.
- ‘Adel Mohammed Fahim Khaleel.
- Rafeeq ‘Atallah Yousif Khaleel.
- Ahmad Mohammed Dhaher Salih.
- Tayseer Mahmoud Ibrahim Khaleel.
- Mohammed Mahmoud Ibraheem Khaleel.
- Mohammed Omar Khaleel Salih.
- Abdullah Ahmad Khaleel.
- Majdi Ghassan Omar.
Murad also said that the village council contacted the Nablus governorate office and the Liaison Office , and after few hours two police cars and four military vehicles showed up at the location and took pictures of the damages.
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About As-Sawiya village:[1]
20 km south Nablus city , As-Sawiya is surrounded by Yatma and Yasouf (north) , Al-Lubban Ash-Sharqi (west) , Talfit and Qablan (east) and Al-Lubban Ash-Sharqi and “Eli” Israeli illegal settlement (south).
As-Sawiya has a population of (2761) people according to 2017 census.
As-Sawiya has a total area of 10,733 dunums , of which 310 dunums are a built up area for the village.
The Israeli occupation confiscate (2662) dunums of its lands for the following purposes:
- Israeli settlement took over (2022) dunums for:
Settlement name
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Establishment year
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Area of controlled lands
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population
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Total area of the settlement
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Eli
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1984
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1543
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4191
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3360
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Rehalim
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1991
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479
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812
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547
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- Bypass 60 devoured 640 dunums.
- Oslo accords divided the town’s lands as the following:
B area: (1459) dunums.
C area : (9274) dunums.
[1] GIS-LRC
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