Burin - Telephone Report - Settlers accompanied by military force attacked a resident
On Saturday, 13.3.21, at 4 PM, a large group of settlers from Giv’at Ronen, accompanied by soldiers, attacked Muntasir Nafa, a resident of Burin, while he was building his home northeast of the village, near the Giv’at Ronen settlement. He fled and alerted his neighbors and youths and many people came to help him. Meanwhile, the settlers managed to demolish a portion of the construction.
The soldiers intervened with tear gas grenades, smoke grenades, and live fire. Two youths were injured. One, Hamada Muhammad Rashid Amran, was wounded and is hospitalized in serious condition. The second youth was wounded in the shoulder, was treated, and returned home. Soldiers in a jeep chased a twelve-year-old boy through the village alleys. He managed to escape into one of the homes and collapsed in fear. Villagers describe the events as a war that continued for two hours before the soldiers left.
Note: Prior to the pandemic, Vivi and I had visited that house. We saw the damage and destruction caused by the settlers. We considered returning, but I don’t think we’ll be allowed to enter because of the closure.
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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