Settler Violence

2024-04-13 · Duma, Nablus

About 200 settlers raid Duma, burning homes, vehicles and olive trees

ArsonProperty damageHome invasionDamage to olive treesArrests or chargesAwaiting review

After the body of Israeli teenager Binyamin Ahimeir was found, about 200 settlers, many masked and some armed, raided Duma. According to council head Hussein Dawabsheh, five houses were completely burned and seven houses and three agricultural buildings partly burned. Fifteen vehicles, an excavator, three tractors, farmland and olive trees were also set on fire. Soldiers present fired tear gas at Palestinians trying to repel the settlers and reportedly blocked fire trucks and ambulances. +972 links social-media videos showing soldiers present.

Footage

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Location

Approximate: village

Victims and damage

Injured
0
Killed
0
Damage
Per the council head: 5 houses fully burned, 7 houses and 3 agricultural buildings partly burned, 15 vehicles, an excavator, 3 tractors, farmland and olive trees set on fire

Perpetrators

Army
Soldiers took part

Legal outcome

  1. Arrest · 2024-04-28 · Administrative detention (no charge): five orders reportedly signed against settlers behind the Duma and al-Mughayyir attacks. Unnamed; single secondary source. [2]

Sources

  1. +972 Magazine (Oren Ziv, 18 Apr 2024): 'The soldiers opened the way for the settlers': Pogroms surge across West Bank
  2. Al-Quds report on administrative detention orders for Duma and al-Mughayyir attackers (28 Apr 2024)

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