Mufaqara - violent settlers from Mitzpe Avigail settlement threaten and beat

Before the holiday, we went to Mufaqara to Fadel Hamamda's family. A family that is constantly attacked by the old settlers from Mitzpe Avigail and also a new settler who lives in a bus on the hill opposite.

We bought them food and were invited to the cave under their house, a cooler and more pleasant place to sit, in the terrible heat that day. We met Fadel's two sons there. They told about the events of the last two weeks:

On Thursday two weeks ago one of them was with the herd in the pasture. Two young settlers arrived from Mitzpe Avigail and tried to evict him "Go away from here, this is not your land," they said and  one of them added and threatened with movements of his hands on his throat that even those who do not speak Hebrew can understand: "If you come again, we will slaughter you."

"What did you do?" I asked.

"Nothing, he has a weapon. What could I do, I was scared, I returned home and called the police." They came, the police, but they didn't go down to the scene. They just watched from above, from Avigail, and left. Days later, on Saturday, when Fadel was working in his vineyard and olive plot, 3 settlers came and cursed him. Again, he was afraid because they were armed and went home. The police came again but stayed at the new settler's farm up on the hill, looked and left. A few hours later settlers arrived with their herd at Fadel's barley plot. The sheep ate all the barley that grew there and was intended for food for his sheep. They show us their water hole on the hill opposite. "We are not allowed to even get close to it. As soon as we get close, they immediately come and drive us away."

Later that Saturday, 6 settlers arrived at Fadel's son who was grazing the herd in another of their plots and started beating them. When he took out the phone to photograph them, they threw the phone at him and broke it. Luckily there were volunteers who live in At-Tuwani, they came and took pictures.

Again, they called the police, they arrived and told them to file a complaint with the Kiryat Arba police.

They did so and filed a complaint. They showed me the complaint. It only says that a complaint was filed by ... The place intended for the details of the case was empty.

They also show me a paper explaining the Civil Administration’s policy,