Burin - "Just a regular weekday"
19.7.22 was a regular weekday in Burin. The settlers made sure that it would not be just any day, but a special day for some of the residents.
We arrived at dear Doha’s home in Burin who reports to us what is happening there. After a short conversation, we drove with Doha to the area of the village where the settlers and soldiers arrived the day before yesterday July 19, 2022.
The story we heard was that the settlers came down from Yitzhar in the direction of the village, lit a fire between the olive trees on both sides of the road, and then entered the road leading to the village. There they continued throwing stones at parked cars and broke the windows of three of them.
The soldiers joined the settlers and penetrated deeper into the village, where they may have been stoned. They ran after a 7-year-old boy who ran away to his house. They entered the house and demanded that the mother take him out. Later they threw the cameras of the person who was filming and entered the house, took the child out and threatened him and maybe beat him and imprisoned his cousin, who is still under arrest.
As we already said – just a regular weekday.
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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