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Settlers Write Offensive Slogans and Slash Car Tires in Deir Qaddis / Ramallah

July 10, 2019

Violation: Settlers’ assaults.
Location : Deir Qaddis/ Northwest Ramallah.
Date: 10/07/2019.
Perpetrator: Price tag gang.
Victims: 21 families from the village.

Description:

At the early morning hours of Wednesday, a group of price tag settlers raided the northern area of Deir Qaddis, the fanatic settlers took advantage of the calmness of the night and wrote hatred inciting slogans on the walls of 9 houses , in addition to Deir Qaddis primary school and the town’s old mosque. Nevertheless, the radical settlers slashed the tires of 19 cars parked around the town’s houses.

Noteworthy, Settlers of “Nili” illegal settlement which is 200 m away from Deir Qaddis houses , accused one of the villages residents Mahmoud Qatousa of raping an Israeli underage child , Qatusa was proved innocent in the Israeli supreme court after two weeks in prison, some of the writings on the walls requested the execution of Qatousa.

The following table shows more information about the damages left in Deir Qaddis:

#	Victims/ affected	The damages
1	The old mosque	Insulting writings on its walls
2	Deir Qaddis primary school	Insulting writings on its walls
3	Mohammad Abu Nasir	Slashing car tires
4	Fayyad Nasser	Slashing car tires
5	Fawzi Shehaiber	Slashing car tires
6	Raed Nasser	Slashing car tires
7	‘Ahed Qatusa	Slashing car tires
8	Khalid Nasser	Slashing car tires
9	Abdullah Nasser	Slashing car tires
10	Yusif Nasser	Slashing car tires
11	Ashraf Awad	Slashing car tires and writing insulting slogans
12	Hassan Nasser	Slashing car tires and writing insulting slogans
13	Salama Qatousa	Slashing car tires and writing insulting slogans
14	Joma’a Shuhaiber	Slashing car tires and writing insulting slogans
15	Shadi Nasser	Slashing car tires and writing insulting slogans
16	Samer Qtousa	Slashing car tires and writing insulting slogans
17	Mohammad Nasser	Slashing car tires and writing insulting slogans on the walls of his house
18	Taher Nasser	Slashing car tires and writing insulting slogans on the walls of his house
19	Mohammad Abu Ashaisha	Slashing car tires and writing insulting slogans on the walls of his house
20	Haitham Qatousa	Slashing car tires and writing insulting slogans on the walls of his house
21	Mohammad Qatousa	Slashing car tires and writing insulting slogans on the walls of his house
22	Basim Nasser	Slashing car tires and writing insulting slogans on the walls of his house

Source: First hand field observation- Israeli violations monitoring section- LRC , July 2019

One of the victims, Haitham Qatousa told LRC reporter:

“The attack was expected , the radical settlers always take advantage of the night’s quietness in order to carry out attacks . There are videos that document the attacks, we filed a complaint to the Israeli police supported by the videos, but nothing was done to stop such attacks from occurring.”

Settlers’ break-ins and arson attacks on Palestinians in the suburb areas are meant to terror and harass Palestinian citizens to push them out of their areas. 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.

About Deir Qaddis:[1]

Deir Qaddis is located 25 km west Ramallah and bordered by Shabteen (north), Na’alin (west), Kharabtha Bani Harith (east) and Bala’en (south). Deir Qaddis is populated 2452 in 2017, and has a total area of 8,051 dunums , of which 518 are the town’s built up area.

Israeli built illegal colonies “Na’ale” and Nili on the northern area of the town, and “Kiryat Sefer” in the southern area.

The occupation grabbed 2989 dunums of Deir Qaddis lands for the following purposes:

Settlements ate up (2,504) dunums:

Settlement name	Establishment year	Area of confiscated lands	Number of settlers 2018	confiscated lands from Deir Qaddis
Na’ale	1982	418	1871	Part of the settlement
Kiryat Sefer	1991	1,704	74,615	Part of the settlement
Matityahu	1980	13	871	Part of the settlement
Nili	1981	369	1,787	Part of the settlement