• Violation : Sabotaging Palestinian properties.
• Location : Deir Istiya village / Salfit governorate.
• Date: 18/06/2019.
• perpetrators: “Price tag” settlers.
• Victims: 23 families from the village.

Description:

At 2:00 am of Tuesday 18^th of 2019, a group of settlers raided the southern west neighborhood in Deir Istiya, in an area known as (Al-Khayousa and An-Najema), where they wrote hatred inciting slogans such as : (this is the town of saboteurs) , (stones bring killing) , (stop throwing rocks on settlers’ cars)  ,(long living the people of Israel), (people of Israel are alive), (long living the David star), in addition to slashing 23 car tires.

Activist Rezq Abu Nasser told LRC reporter:

“In the recent years Deir Istiya’s people witnessed several attacks that aim to  discourage their will , the Israeli occupation army and settlers work to take over wide areas of lands and Judaizing the area, And while Deir Istiya is the largest town in Salfit governorate , the occupation prohibited physical expansion and profiting of Wadi Qana plots, while settlers are devouring more lands and expanding settlements more and more.”

The following table shows detailed information about the attack:

#	Affected citizen	Nature of the damages
1	Nitham Abdullah	Slashing car tires
2	Jamal Al-Khateeb	Slashing car tires
3	Mohammad Ajarmeh	Slashing car tires
4	Hassan Ajarmeh	Slashing car tires
5	Izzat Aqel	Slashing car tires
6	Abdul Salam As-Salman	Slashing car tires
7	Amer Qaddus	Slashing car tires
8	Mohammad Al-Masri	Slashing car tires
9	Nidal Saed	Slashing car tires
10	Mu’tassem Salman	Slashing car tires
11	Ali Abdul Razeq	Slashing car tires
12	Nitham Salman	Slashing car tires
13	Bashar Saed	Slashing car tires and writing hatred inciting slogans on its doors
14	Kamal Awad	Slashing car tires and writing hatred inciting slogans on its doors
15	Sameer Al-Qadi	Slashing car tires and writing hatred inciting slogans on its doors
16	Hazim Al0- Khafsh	Writing hatred inciting slogans on the house walls
17	Majid As-Salman	Slashing car tires and writing slogans on the house walls
18	Khalid Suliman	Slashing car tires and writing slogans on the house walls
19	Abdul Mu’ti As-Salman	writing slogans on the house walls
20	Ahmad Abdullah	Slashing car tires and writing slogans on the house walls
21	Hussni Salman	writing slogans on the house walls
22	Omar Suliman	Slashing car tires and writing slogans on the house walls

Source: Firsthand field observation- Israeli violations monitoring section – LRC , June 2019

Deir Istiya village:

10 km north Salfit , Deir Istiya is surrounded by Ematin , Jinsafut and Kafr Laqif (north), Azzun and Kafar Thulth (west), Zita, Jama’en and Kafl Haris (east), Haris and Qaraqwat Bani Hyssan (south)

Deir Istiya has a population of (3,696) people in 2017 census.

The town has a total area of 34,125, of which 640 dunums are a built up area.

• The Israeli occupation confiscated (4,257) dunums for the following purposes:

Settlement name	Establishment year	Area in dunums	Number of settlers 2018
Revava	1991	167	2,664
Yakir	1981	757	2,341
Ginat Shomron	1985	944	NA
Karnei Shomron	1978	540	8,388
Novim	1986	663	867
Immanuel	1981	879	4,220
Ma’ale Shomron	1980	52	1,002
Al-Matan	1981	22	NA

 

• Bypass roads 55 and 5066 devoured 118 dunums.
• The segregation wall (1,148 m ate up115 dunums , in case its construction plan was completed it will isolate 8,408 dunums and eat up 160 dunums.

Oslo accords classified Deir Istiya as the following :

• B area : 6,132 dunums.
• C area 27,993 dunums.

 

Prepared by

 The Land Research Center
LRC