Land Research Center

Violation: settling fire to 70 olive trees.

Location : Burin village/ Nablus governorate.

Date: October 8^th 2019.

Perpetrator: settlers of “Yitzhar”.

Victims: 4 famrers.

Description:

 Tuesday October 8^th 2019, about 1:30 in the afternoon settlers of “Yitzhar” set 70 olive trees on fire , aging more than 50 years in Burin village south Nablus.

Burin village council head Nidal Najjar told LRC the following:

“Tuesday afternoon, eyewitnesses saw tens of settlers from “Yitzhar” in Umm Braiz and At-Tanour locations south the village close to the bypass roads that penetrates Burin, few minutes passed before flames burst in olive trees . settlers ran when they heard the mosque calling for citizens to go to the location and help in stopping the fire , while firefighters couldn’t reach the location, The fire ate up 70 fruitful olive trees.”

Colonization resistance activist Munir Qaddous from Burin village told LRC:

Settlers set fire to olive trees just before the olive harvesting season which caused great financial lost to farmers (about 30 thousand shekels (8700 $) ) , the target trees belong to:

• Ibrahim Ali Eid 30 trees.
• Ali Isma’el Qaddous 15 trees.
• Abdul Nasser ‘Awad 14 trees.
• Ahmad Oudeh 11 trees.

About Burin:

It is located 8km to the south of Nablus city and is of 10,416 dunums in area, of which 335 dunums are the village’s built-up area. Burin has a total population of 2844 people in 2017. Two Israeli colonies are founded on the lands of Burin which are:

The occupatrion confiscated (2177) dunums for the following purboses:

• Israeli settlements devoured 1099 dunums for:

• Bypasses (60) and (555) devoured 387 dunums.
• Israeli military camps devoures 691 dunums.
• Oslo accords divided the town’s lands as the following:
• B area : 2,408 dunums.
• C area: 9,941 dunums.

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