Burin and Beit Imrin - settler violence
Telephone report from M.
Yesterday, Wednesday, May 6, a group of settlers from Halamish settlement came down to the village which is near the settlement of Beit Imrin. On their way, they came upon a shepherd, attacked him and began to beat him. They stole the flock and went back where they came from! Meanwhile, people who were working in the area arrived and called the army. The soldiers arrived and got the flock back. The men called an ambulance which picked up the shepherd, who was in crticial condition. He had 3 breaks in his right leg.
There was a similar attack 4 days ago, on Sunday, May 4th the settlers from Itzhar took over more land near the settlement and started to work it. When this became unbearable, the owners of the land got together and attacked the head of the local council and other members and demanded that they find a solution to their problems. They decided to go and push out the settlers on their own. More and more people joined them, including the head of the Local Council, and they arrived at that place and kicked out the settlers. But the problem remains that they don’t have a tabu registration for these lands, so they are helpless. It is only a temporary solution; the settlers will return.
Yesterday, I called G., who owns the house nearest Givat Ronen. He reported that practically every day the setlers come down toward them and throw stones. Two days ago, a woman was outside hanging laundry and a stone almost hit her in the leg.
Burin (Yitzhar)
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Burin (Yitzhar)
This is a Palestinian village in the Nablus governorate, a little south of Nablus, on the main road passing through the West Bank. The settlements: Yitzhar and Har Bracha, settled in locations that surrounded the village, placed fences so it is cut off the main road.
There are around 4000 inhabitants. Most of them are engaged in agriculture and pasture, although many graduates of the two secondary schools continue to study at the university. Academic positions are hardly available, they find work as builderd, or leave for the Gulf countries.
The village lands were appropriated several times for the establishment of Israeli settlements and military bases, and as a result, Burin's land and water resources dwindled. lSince 1982, more than 2,000 dunams of village land have been declared "state land" and then transferred to Har Bracha settlement.
Over the past few years and more so since 2017, the villagers have been terrorized by the residents of Yitzhar and Har Bracha, the Givat Ronen outpost and others. Despite the close proximity of soldiers to an IDF base close to one of the village's schools, residents are suffering from numerous stone-throwing events, vehicle and fire arson, also reported in the press.
In 2023, the prevention of the olive harvest in the village plot was more violent than ever. Soldiers and settlers walked with drawn weapons between the houses of the village and demanded that people stop harvesting in the village itself and in the private plots outside the village. The settlers from Yitzhar and Giv'at Roned raided the olive groves and stole crops. 300 olive trees belonging to the residents of Burin, near Yitzhar, were uprooted. The loss of livelihood from the olives causes long-term economic damage to the farmers' families, bringing them to the point of starvation.
(updated for November 2023)
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