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76-621: Turmus Ayya has been a target of Israeli settler violence . During the Ottman era (1500 CE), the Palestinain village was registered under the name Turmus Ayya ( Arabic : ترمسعيا ) in historical survey records. This name orginates from the Roman era. Michael Avi-Yonah and Shemuel Yeivin , noting phonetic similarities, have proposed that the name "Turmus" may have derived from the Latin word thermae ,

152-619: A "security threat" as well as a "societal and educational danger." In December 2011, following an outbreak of settler violence against IDF property and personnel, Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak said, "There is no doubt that we are talking about terrorists." Olive farming is a major industry and employer in the Palestinian West Bank and olive trees are a common target of settler violence. According to OCHA roughly 10,000 Palestinian West Bank olive trees and saplings have suffered either uprooting or damage from Israeli attacks in 2013,

228-517: A broken lintel with a garland carved upon it and the fragments of a column. He found about seven hundred inhabitants The village was administered by two sheikhs and divided into two different areas. Since the ancient cisterns were almost completely dry, women fetched water from Ain Siloun or Ain Sindjel. An official Ottoman village list from about 1870 showed that "Turmus Aya" had a total of 88 houses and

304-503: A building permit". The report criticized the Israeli authorities for having "systematically failed to enforce the law on those responsible for these acts and to provide Palestinians with any effective remedy". OCHA reported, from 1 January to 19 September 2023, Israeli settlers and forces killed 189 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and wounded 8,192. OCHA also said on average, there are three cases of settlers attacking Palestinians in

380-504: A couple out of their home at midnight and transformed it into military barracks, overlooking a middle school. Turmus Ayya is a target of Israeli settler violence . According to B'tselem , in the six first months of 2023, Turmus Ayya was attacked ten times by Israeli settlers. On 21 June 2023 hundreds of masked Israeli settlers, responding to the killing of four Israeli civilians in a neighboring settlement, firebombed around 30 houses and 60 cars; one Palestinian resident, Omar Qattin (27),

456-422: A group of Israeli settlers riding horses and carrying torches raided Palestinian areas, burning 1,500-2,000 olive trees and stoning cars. In March 2011, two EU heads-of-mission reports detailed a tripling of violent settler attacks over three years. The report found that the attacks were especially aimed at Palestinian farmers and their livelihood in a systematic campaign of violence and intimidation which included

532-572: A group of Israelis stop next to a cistern in Humra Valley, open the lid, and raise the bucket. The water was later found to be contaminated. Oxfam , a British NGO, has reported that settlers deliberately poisoned the only well in Madama , a village near Nablus , by dumping used diapers into it; and that they shot aid workers who came to clean the well. A United Nations survey released in March 2012 documented

608-506: A necessary part of the peace process. According to B'Tselem, when a building is evacuated by the Israeli government, settlers lash out at Palestinians because they're "easy victims" and as a means to widen the area under settler control. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official who deals with the settlements issue in the northern West Bank, said, "These groups of settlers are organised and support each other...If there’s an outpost evacuation, they call people from Hebron to Jenin to stop

684-479: A number of shortcomings, including the use of Hebrew to record testimonies given in Arabic; frequent failure to check the scene where the alleged offense took place; often not taking down eye-witness testimonies; widespread lack of recourse to live identification line-ups with suspected Israeli civilians; hardly any confrontations between complainants and suspects; failure to check alibis; hasty closure of files shortly after

760-464: A population of 301, though the population count included men only. In 1882, the PEF 's Survey of Western Palestine Turmus Aya was described as "a village on a low knoll, in a fertile plain, with a spring to the south. The village is of moderate size, and surrounded by fruit trees. On the south at the foot of the mound is the conspicuous white dome of the sacred place." In 1896 the population of Turmus Ayya

836-400: A public hot bath. According to this theory, the original name of the site was Ayya , and it is believed that the bath constructed there, presumably during Roman - Byzantine times, led to the addition of the name "Turmus" for the site. Turmus Ayya is located 22 kilometres (14 mi) northeast of the city of Ramallah . Its surrounding villages are Sinjil and Khirbet Abu Falah as well as

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912-645: A raid in Hebron. Paint and eggs were thrown at the soldiers. A violent settler protest at the Palestinian village of Funduk occurred in November 2007, in which hundreds of extremist settlers converged at the entrance of the village and rampaged after 29-year-old local settler Ido Zoldan was shot dead in his car by Palestinian gunmen at the entrance to Funduk. The settlers smashed the windows of houses and cars. According to Funduk villagers, Israeli soldiers and police accompanied

988-626: A report, "A Semblance of Law", which found problems with law enforcement actions against Israelis in the West Bank. According to Yesh Din's study, which was conducted in 2005, among complaints against Israelis, more than 90% were closed without indictments mainly due to perpetrators not being found, 5% were lost and never investigated, and 96% of trespassing cases (including sabotage of trees) and 100% of vandalism and other property offense complaints led to no indictment. As well as collecting statistics, Yesh Din examined 42 closed investigation files and found

1064-408: A rise from about 8,500 trees damaged in 2012. B'Tselem alleges that "olive pickers in areas near certain settlements and outposts in the West Bank have been a target of attacks by settlers, who have cut down and burned olive trees and stolen the crops", and that "security forces have not taken suitable action to prevent the violence". The IDF barred olive picking in extensive areas of land, stating that

1140-752: A state of necessity in order to preclude the wrongfulness of imposing a régime, which is contrary to international law. The Court also concluded that the Israeli régime violates the basic human rights of the Palestinians by impeding the liberty of movement of the inhabitants of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (with the exception of Israeli citizens) and their exercise of the right to work, to health, to education and to an adequate standard of living. In Hebron, where 500-600 settlers live among 167,000 Palestinians, B'Tselem argues that there have been "grave violations" of Palestinian human rights because of

1216-688: Is estimated that the village has existed continuously since then. Turmus Ayya is generally accepted as being the Turbasaim in Crusader sources. A little northeast of Turmus Ayya is Khirbet Ras ad-Deir/Deir el-Fikia, believed to be the Crusader village of Dere . In 1145, half of the income from both villages were given to the Abbey of Mount Tabor , so that they could maintain the church at Sinjil . In 1175, all three villages; Turmus Ayya, Dere and Sinjil, were transferred to

1292-512: Is immoral", Porat said. "It's unheard of that one needs to burn the vineyards and fields of Arabs. It's immoral ... and it gives legitimacy to those who are interested in undermining the outpost issue. It's a very grave matter." Yesha Council is the umbrella organization of municipal councils of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Council chairman Dani Dayan said that settlers must not use violence to advance their means. He said that such actions were " morally bankrupt " and serve only to "hinder

1368-670: The Church of the Holy Sepulchre . In 1517, Turmus Ayya was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire with the rest of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared in the tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Quds of the Liwa of Quds . It had a population of 43 households, all Muslim , and paid taxes on wheat, barley, olive trees, vineyards, fruit trees, goats and/or beehives; a total of 7,200 akçe . 11/24 of

1444-502: The Gilad Farm , Shilo , and Yitzhar , and all under IDF guard, were damaged, but were not reported in the media: According to Yesh Din, 97.4% of complaints submitted to Israeli police by Palestinians who had suffered damage to their olive groves between 2005 and 2013 were closed without indictment. On 13 July 2004, residents of Hirbat Atwana near Hebron found rotting chicken carcasses in their well after four Jewish settlers were seen in

1520-720: The Huwara rampage of February 2023. In October 2023, the outbreak of the Israel–Hamas war was accompanied by a further escalation in Israeli settler violence in the West Bank. After the war began, the settlers "have acted with near-impunity", wrote BBC News in May 2024. In April 2024, Israeli settlers rampaged through Palestinian villages in the West Bank after the disappearance of Israeli teenager Benjamin Achimeir on 12 April 2024, whose dead body

1596-533: The Israeli settlement of Shilo . Its jurisdiction is about 18,000 acres (73 km). Turmus Ayya is 720 m above sea level . It is also the northernmost town in the Ramallah District. Turmus Ayya's climate is similar to that of the central West Bank , which is rainy in the winter, and hot and humid in the summer. Potsherds from the late Iron Age (8 -7th century B.C.E.) period and later have been found, and it

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1672-489: The Oslo Accords of 1995, 64.7% of village land was classified as Area B , and the remaining 35.3% as Area C . Israel has confiscated 752 dunams of village land for the Israeli settlement of Shilo , and another 372 dunams for Mizpe Rahel . In December 2014, the town was the site of the death of Palestinian official Ziad Abu Ein during a protest against Israeli occupation. On November 27th, 2024, Israeli forces forced

1748-588: The unauthorized outposts in the West Bank are removed by the Israeli government. A total of 75,900 Palestinians in 22 villages are "highly vulnerable." The report also warns that a number of roads around Palestinian villages may become dangerous for the Palestinians to use. The settlements of Havat Gilad , Kedumim , Itamar , Yitzhar , Ma'aleh Levona , Shilo , Adei Ad , Nokdim , Bat Ayin , Negohot , Kiryat Arba , Beit Haggai , Carmel , and Susya are considered possible threats to nearby Palestinians. The report criticizes "the inadequate level of law enforcement by

1824-752: The "presence of the settlers within the city". The organization cites regular incidents of "almost daily physical violence and property damage by settlers in the city", curfews and restrictions of movement that are "among the harshest in the Occupied Territories", and violence by Israeli border policemen and the IDF against Palestinians who live in the city's H2 sector . Human Rights Watch reports on physical violence against Palestinians by settlers, including, "frequent[ly] stoning and shooting at Palestinian cars. In many cases, settlers abuse Palestinians in front of Israeli soldiers or police with little interference from

1900-522: The 21st century, there has been a steady increase in violence and terror perpetrated by Israeli settlers against Palestinians. In 2012, an EU heads of mission report found that settler violence had more than tripled in the three years up to 2011. United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) figures state that the annual rate of settler attacks (2,100 attacks in 8 years) has almost quadrupled between 2006 and 2014. In 2021, there

1976-584: The Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 to which the majority of states (including the Western states) are parties. The International Court of Justice concluded that Israel had breached its obligations under international law by establishing settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and that Israel cannot rely on a right of self-defence or on

2052-555: The High Court for access. The United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict reported on rioting and violence in the West Bank in the period preceding the Israeli military operations in Gaza. The report said "Little if any action is taken by the Israeli authorities to investigate, prosecute and punish violence against Palestinians, including killings, by settlers and members of

2128-532: The Israeli authorities" and "the ambiguous message delivered by the Government of Israel and the IDF top officials to the security forces in the field regarding their authority and responsibility to enforce the law on Israeli settlers." Some settlers who attacked or harassed Palestinians are disaffected young adults called the Hilltop Youth by the Israeli media. In 2008, welfare minister Isaac Herzog labeled them

2204-482: The Israeli government authorized administrative detention and military trial for settlers who engaged in violent actions, similar to the treatment accorded Palestinian activists who engage in similar behavior. The IDF was granted the power to arrest violent settlers and plans were announced to increase security on the West Bank and restrict access by known troublemakers. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu characterized

2280-527: The Israeli government, usually against Palestinian targets and occasionally against Israeli security forces in the West Bank. Palestinian police are forbidden from reacting to acts of violence by Israeli settlers, a fact which diminishes their credibility among Palestinians. Between January and November 2008, 515 criminal suits were opened by Israel against settlers for violence against Arabs or Israeli security forces; 502 of these involved "right wing radicals" while 13 involved "left wing anarchists". In 2008,

2356-572: The Israeli government. In April 2009, dozens of settlers from Bat Ayin rampaged through the West Bank village of Safa , smashing car windows, damaging homes and wounding 12 Palestinians. An Israeli army spokeswoman said that the violence started when Palestinians threw stones at Bat Ayin settlers praying on a nearby hill before the Jewish Passover holiday. The United Nations has warned that as many as 250,000 Palestinians in 83 villages are "highly or moderately" vulnerable to settler retaliation if

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2432-549: The Palestinian population pay the price. While people in the outpost are confronting the security forces, others start harassing Palestinians, forcing commanders to divert men from the outpost and making them think twice about launching future operations. It’s such a big headache that many of the relevant authorities give up without trying and the outposts are quickly rebuilt once the army gives up and leaves. The violence by extremist settlers against Palestinians has been condemned by leading religious, political and municipal figures in

2508-468: The Palestinians working on their lands". Michael Sfard, a lawyer with Yesh Din , an Israeli human rights group which monitors the violation of human rights in the Palestinian territories , stated that there are between a few dozen and a few hundred extremist settlers using a tactic called price-tagging : if the government sends police or soldiers to dismantle an outpost that is being built, the settlers make

2584-472: The West Bank of the Jordan River every day, resulting in the killing and injuring of Palestinians, harming their property, and preventing them from reaching their land, workplace, family, and friends. In December 2009, suspected settler extremists attacked a mosque in the northern West Bank village of Yasuf near Nablus , according to Palestinian officials and Israeli police. The people forced their way into

2660-435: The West Bank since June 2011, and no investigation has ever led to an indictment. Settler violence has impeded Palestinians from visiting holy sites and worshipping at their mosques, and have interfered with muezzin calls for daily prayer. 1931 census of Palestine The 1931 census of Palestine was the second census carried out by the authorities of Mandatory Palestine . It was carried out on 18 November 1931 under

2736-628: The West Bank started in a systematic manner in 1980, as some religious settlers created a secret organization later referred to as "the Jewish Underground ". This group was captured by Israeli law enforcement authorities in 1984. Settler violence received a new boost following the Oslo agreement in 1993. In late 2022, far-right leaders of the Israeli settlement movement were elected into the government of Israel and appointed as prominent ministers; in early 2023, Israeli settler violence increased, which included

2812-543: The West Bank, including Rabbi Menachem Fruman of Tekoa , who said: "Targeting Palestinians and their property is a shocking thing, (...) It's an act of hurting humanity. (...) This builds a wall of fire between Jews and Arabs." According to former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon , "most of those extreme right wing activists" are not settlers and do not represent the settlements community. The Yesha Council and former Knesset member Hanan Porat has also condemned violence against Palestinians. "The 'price tag' response

2888-443: The authorities." B'Tselem also says that settler actions include "blocking roadways, so as to impede Palestinian life and commerce. The settlers also shoot solar panels on roofs of buildings, torch automobiles, shatter windowpanes and windshields, destroy crops, uproot trees, abuse merchants and owners of stalls in the market. Some of these actions are intended to force Palestinians to leave their homes and farmland, and thereby enable

2964-461: The biblical edict to exterminate the Amalekites to justify both expelling Palestinians from the land and killing Arab civilians in wartime. One of the causes of violence is settler vigilante action in response to, usually unrelated, acts of Palestinian violence. Human rights group B'Tselem says that the violence is "a means to harass and intimidate Palestinians" and that the evacuations are

3040-635: The closures were to protect the olive pickers. The case went to the Israeli High Court in 2006 which found that, as a rule, lands are not to be closed because of settler violence, and that the IDF must enforce the law. According to B'Tselem the IDF has worked around this by saying the lands are closed to protect the settlers. Amnesty International has said that scores of Palestinian-owned sheep as well as gazelles and other animals were poisoned with fluoracetamide near Tuwani on 22 March 2005, depriving Palestinian farmers of their livelihood. In July 2009,

3116-465: The complaint was registered: closing of files even when evidence was sufficient to indict suspects: police refusing to register complaints, and pressure from the Civilian Administration being used to avoid filing complaints. 8% of complaints resulted in indictments. The Israeli Justice Ministry responded by stating that legal authorities were closely following specific cases, but said that it

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3192-447: The defense establishment began taking a harder line against unruly settlers starting in 2008. In 2011 the BBC reported that "vast majority of settlers are non-violent but some within the Israeli government acknowledge a growing problem with extremists." UN figures from 2011 showed that 90% of complaints filed against settlers by Palestinians with the Israeli police never led to indictment. In

3268-503: The destruction of over 10,000 olive trees in the preceding year. The report noted that the Israeli state had "so far failed to effectively protect the Palestinian population". According to a confidential IDF document for just the period from Sept. 11 - October 20, 2013, the following Palestinian olive groves, near Israeli settlements near Elon Moreh , Karnei Shomron , Kedumim , Ma'on , and the Ma'on Farm, Susya , Shavei Shomron , Zayit Ra'anan ,

3344-683: The direction of Major E. Mills after the 1922 census of Palestine . No further census was conducted in Palestine by the British administration. The census found a total population of 1,035,821 (1,033,314 excluding the numbers of H.M. Forces ), an increase of 36.8% since 1922, of which the Jewish population increased by 108.4%. The population was divided by religion as follows: 759,717 Muslims, 174,610 Jews, 91,398 Christians, 9,148 Druzes, 350 Bahais, 182 Samaritans, and 421 reporting no religion. A special problem

3420-625: The election of a far-right government in 2022 which proposed to expand Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories, as well as the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel on 7 October 2023. In October 2024 Al Jazeera reported that there were 1,423 recorded incidents of settler violence in the west bank since October 7, with 321 incidents, Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate , 319 incidents in Nablus Governorate and 298 in Hebron Governorate . Physical violence by settlers against Palestinians in

3496-633: The evacuation of the "Federman Farm" as "terrorism". In response to the violence directed towards Israeli security forces, Israel declared it would no longer fund any illegal outposts from November, 2008. After the evacuation of settlers from Hebron in December 2008, a riot ensued and a Jewish settler, Ze'ev Braude, was recorded on video shooting two unarmed Palestinians after Palestinians had hurled rocks at him. The victims were shot on their own property, which Braude had entered, and later needed surgery. The Israeli State Prosecutor's Office decided to abandon

3572-414: The ground, and targeted against ordinary Palestinians with no apparent connection to the murder of Benjamin Achimeir other than the bad luck of living nearby." Israel has justified its civilian settlements by stating the territories in question are not occupied, but disputed , and that a temporary use of land and buildings for various purposes appears permissible under a plea of military necessity and that

3648-438: The increasing use of threats, violence and intimidation to deny Palestinians access to their water resources in the West Bank. The survey stated that Israeli settlers have been acting systematically to gain control of some 56 springs, most of which are located on private Palestinian land. The report noted that settler actions included "trespass, intimidation and physical assault, stealing of private property, and construction without

3724-491: The mosque and burned about 100 holy books, including Korans , Hadiths , and prayer carpets, and spray-painted anti-Palestinian slogans on the floor, some of which referred to the settlers' "price tag" policy. In January 2010, Israeli security officers raided the settlement of Yitzhar , forcibly entered the settlement's synagogue and yeshiva buildings and arrested ten settlers, including the Rosh yeshiva , for alleged involvement in

3800-672: The mosque attack. All were released by the court due to lack of evidence and the court reprimanded the police for arresting the rabbi. As of January 2010, no indictments were served. The state has appealed the ruling. In September 2011, the Al-Nurayn Mosque in Qusra became the subject of an arson attack allegedly perpetrated by militant Jewish settlers, who set the mosque on fire by throwing two burning tyres through its windows. Slogans in Hebrew threatening further attacks had been graffitied on

3876-641: The occupied territories had failed to protect the Palestinian population; it accused Israel of setting up its operations to minimize the impact on settlers of an ongoing campaign of settler violence. The reports noted that, "Over 90% of monitored complaints regarding settler violence filed by Palestinians with the Israeli police in recent years have been closed without indictment", and further added that, "discriminatory protections and privileges for settlers compound these abuses and create an environment in which settlers can act with apparent impunity". Following an attack by settlers on an IDF army base on December 13, 2011,

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3952-455: The prosecution of Braude after the Israeli High Court of Justice ruled that the prosecution must give the defendant access to "sensitive information". The prosecutor's office had earlier said that some of the evidence against Braude was classified for security reasons, due to "the Shin Bet's sources and methods of operation, and identifying details about its units and people". Braude had petitioned

4028-496: The protesters but mostly stood aside while the settlers rampaged. In December 2008, Hebron settlers angry at the eviction of settlers from a disputed house rioted, shooting three Palestinian rock-throwers and burning Palestinian homes and olive groves. Video footage of the attacks was recorded, leading to widespread condemnation in Israel. The attacks were characterized as "a pogrom " by Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert , who said he

4104-583: The residents are Palestinian binationals with US citizenship. Many of the villagers have moved to the Americas to seek economic opportunity, but they return regularly in order to keep their Palestinian ID. One is Ashraf Rabi, whose family moved to Panama and then the US around 1980, and moved back in 2007, establishing the Turmus Ayya Equestrian Club. Israeli settler violence Palestinians are

4180-479: The return of land to, Palestinians. The theft of Palestinian olive harvests has been justified by some rabbis. Former chief rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu stated that: "Since the land is the inheritance of the People of Israel, planting on this land by gentiles is planting on land that does not belong to them. If someone puts a tree on my land, both the tree and the fruit it yields belongs to me." Some rabbinical extremists cite

4256-497: The revenue went to a Waqf . In 1838, Edward Robinson noted that Turmus Aya was within the province of Jerusalem, but the province of Nablus was just north of it. It was further noted that it was situated "on a low rocky mound in the level valley." In Turmus Ayya's cemetery, several graves have headstones that date back to the Ottoman Era. French explorer Victor Guérin visited the village in 1870 and found ancient cisterns ,

4332-541: The security forces, resulting in a situation of impunity. The Mission concludes that Israel has failed to fulfil its obligations to protect the Palestinians from violence by private individuals under both international human rights law and international humanitarian law. The report also stated that the International Court of Justice advisory opinion and "a number of United Nations resolutions have all affirmed that Israel’s practice of constructing settlements - in effect,

4408-437: The senior Israeli commander in the West Bank said that a hard core of a few hundred activists were involved in violence against the Palestinians and Israeli soldiers. Some prominent Jewish religious figures living in the occupied territories, as well as Israeli government officials, have condemned and expressed outrage over such behavior, while religious justifications for settler killings have also been given. Israeli media said

4484-486: The settlements fulfilled security needs. The United Nations affirmed the principle of international law that the continuation of colonialism in all its forms and manifestations is a crime and that colonial peoples have the inherent right to struggle by all necessary means at their disposal against colonial powers and alien domination in exercise of their right of self-determination. National liberation struggles are categorized as international armed conflicts by Article 1(4) of

4560-524: The settlers to gain control of them." When an 11-year-old Palestinian girl from Nablus was killed by settlers in 1983, in their defense, the chief rabbi of the Sephardic community reportedly cited a Talmudic text justifying killing an enemy on occasions when one may see from a child's perspective that he or she will grow up to become your enemy. Rabbis have been asked by settler militants to provide rulings to justify acts that are aimed to block peace with, or

4636-586: The settlers' struggle". Unlike Palestinians, Israeli civilians living in the Palestinian Territories are not subject to military or local law, but are prosecuted according to Israeli civilian penal law. This originates in the Emergency Regulations bill enacted in 1967 and extended since which gives extraterritorial rights to Israelis in the occupied territories. B'Tselem has said that the difference in legal status of Israelis and Palestinians in

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4712-662: The situation as a handful of extremists in a population of generally law-abiding settlers. Five West Bank Israelis who are alleged to have planned and participated in the attack on the army base were indicted by the District Court of Jerusalem on January 8, 2012. Israeli withdrawals from Gaza (in 2005) and an eviction in Hebron (in 2008) triggered settler rioting in protest. There is also continual conflict between settlers and Palestinians over land, resources and perceived grievances. In August 2007, soldiers clashed with settlers during

4788-480: The target of violence by Israeli settlers and their supporters, predominantly in the West Bank . In November 2021, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz discussed the steep rise in the number of incidents between settlers and Palestinians in the West Bank, many of which result from attacks by residents of illegal settler outposts on Palestinians from neighboring villages. Settler violence also includes acts known as price tag attacks that are in response to actions by

4864-720: The territories has led to a double standard in which Israelis are given more legal rights and are punished more lightly than the Palestinians who are subject to military and local law. B'Tselem notes the system violates the principles of equality before the law and territoriality. Referring to settler violence during the police evacuation of the "Federman Farm" near Kiryat Arba , Haaretz has stated in an editorial "Israeli society has become accustomed to giving lawbreaking settlers special treatment", noting that no other group could similarly attack Israeli law enforcement agencies without being severely punished. Haaretz has characterized settler violence on soldiers and policemen who participated in

4940-543: The transfer by an occupying Power of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies - constitutes a breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention". According to Amos Harel, attempts by the security forces to bring violent right-wing zealots to justice have suffered from two main problems: investigating Israelis as opposed to Palestinians is subject to more restrictions, and courts have proved to be lenient. Human rights nonprofit Yesh Din has produced

5016-417: The village. Israeli police said they suspected militant Jews from a nearby settlement outpost called Havat Maon. Settlers blamed the action on "internal tribal fight between the Palestinians;" Israeli police spokesman Doron Ben-Amo said it was "unlikely" that the Palestinians would contaminate their own well. On 9 December 2007, members of Christian Peacemaker Teams , an American NGO, reported to have observed

5092-467: The wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War , and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements , Turmus Ayya came under Jordanian rule. It was annexed by Jordan in 1950. The Jordanian census of 1961 found 1,620 inhabitants. Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Turmus Ayya has been under Israeli occupation . According to an Israeli census in 1967, there were 1,562 people. By 1989, the population rose to 5,140. Under

5168-502: The walls, reading "Muhammad is a Pig". A star of David had also been graffitied alongside. The attack came hours after Israeli police dismantled three structures in the nearby illegal Jewish settlement of Migron , leading newspapers to suggest that it may have been carried out by settlers in retaliation. On 12 November, the Al-Mughayyir mosque in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate

5244-401: Was ashamed "as a Jew." Local Palestinians stated that once the disputed house was evicted, the IDF and the police were "indifferent" to the violence against the Palestinians and have made no real attempt to stop the settlers from rioting. Some settlers have publicly adopted a "price tag" policy whereby settlers attack Palestinian villages in retaliation after settler outposts are removed by

5320-421: Was damaged extensively when it was torched, reportedly by settlers in what was believed to be a price-tag attack . Israeli police say the incident does not match previous ‘price tag’ attacks, and that a full investigation was impossible because they were denied entry to the village by Palestinian authorities. According to Haaretz journalist Chaim Levinson, it was the 10th such mosque subject to arson in Israel and

5396-679: Was estimated to be about 834 persons. In the 1922 census of Palestine , conducted by the British Mandate authorities , Turmus Ayya had a population of 707, all Muslim, while in the 1931 census , the village had 185 occupied houses and a population of 717, all Muslims except one Christian woman. In the 1945 statistics the population was 960, all Muslim, while the total land area was 17,611 dunams , according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 3,665 dunams were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 7,357 for cereals , while 54 dunams were classified as built-up (urban) areas. In

5472-435: Was found a day later . In total, 11 Palestinian villages were attacked, four Palestinians were shot dead and thousands of animals were killed, while a dozen homes and over 100 cars were burned. BBC News , citing messages from Israeli settlers' WhatsApp groups and testimony from Palestinian villagers and officials, described the rampage as appearing to be a "organised campaign of revenge … carried out by co-ordinated groups on

5548-414: Was not in its authority to deal with every case. Israeli security sources have said that it has become customary for some settlers to take the law into their own hands in the wake of Palestinian terror attacks in the West Bank. In 2008–2009, the defense establishment began taking a harder line against unruly settlers. In 2012, two EU heads of mission reports stated that Israel's security operations in

5624-426: Was posed by the nomadic Bedouin of the south, who were reluctant to co-operate. Estimates of each tribe were made by officers of the district administration according to local observation. The total of 759,717 Muslims included 66,553 persons enumerated by that method. The number of foreign British forces stationed in Palestine in 1931 totalled 2,500. Three volumes of data derived from the census were published by

5700-616: Was shot dead. An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson denounced the attacks as " acts of terror conducted by criminals", adding that such incidents push attacked civilian populations into extremism." In the weeks following the attack, the IDF placed five suspects in administrative detention . Attacks continued throughout July 2024, with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reporting that settlers had burned down farmhouses and generators on four consecutive days. As of 2023, an estimated 80% of

5776-542: Was yet another wave of settler violence which erupted after a 16-year-old settler died in a car chase with Israeli police after having hurled rocks at Palestinians. So far it has resulted in 44 incidents in the span of a few weeks, injuring two Palestinian children. In the latter parts of 2021, there has been a marked increase in settler violence toward Palestinians, condemned at the United Nations Security Council. This violence increased further following

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