Settlers Sabotage Saplings in Turmusa’yya / Ramallah Governorate

Settlers Sabotage Saplings in Turmusa’yya / Ramallah Governorate
  • Violation: Settlers cut olive and figs saplings.
  • Location: Turmusa’yya lands/ Ramallah governorate.
  • Date: 10 /07/2019.
  • Perpetrator: Settlers of “Adei Ad”.
  • Victims: families of Hazma and Abu Sukar .


Wednesday , 10th of July 2019 , people of Turmus’ayya woke up on another attack by settlers’ gangs.

At that day, a fanatic group of “Adei Ad” settlers sneaked into “Ad-Dhahrat area about 100 m away from the settlement, and settlers carried on cutting tens of olives saplings , aging about 3 years old. Reportedly, the targeted saplings included 95 olive saplings and 6 figs saplings on  a 4 dunums plot.

The targeted plants belong to farmers Aicha Hizma, who lost 65 olive saplings, and Riyad Abu As-Sukar, who lost 30 olive saplings and 6 figs saplings.

Farmer Rabah Hazma told LRC reporter:

“In the recent years , hundreds of trees were targeted in Ad-Dhahrat location, about 30 attacks were documented only in the recent 4 years. Despite the several complaints to the Israeli police to stop the attacks from occurring, nothing was done to protect farmers in Ad-Dhahrat area.”

Noteworthy , farmer Hazma remained steadfast on the face of the arbitrary occupation. In the recent years, the occupation forces sabotaged his plants more than 13 times , and he lost at least 800 saplings , but still his love and ties to his land made him stand in the face of the occupation’s schemes.

LRC team documented attacks on olive trees in Turmus’ayya , about 3400 olive trees were sabotaged in the recent 5 years, 235 of them in 2019.

 The Graphic shows number of attacked trees in Turmusa’yys in years

About Turmus’ayya:[1]

25 km to the north east of Ramallah city, Turmus’ayya  has a population of 2464 people (2017 census) most of them belong to two measure families : Awad and Jbara, In addition to other small families who located themselves in the town after 1948 : Shalabi, Kouk and Hezmawi.

Its total land area is 18139 dunums,2464 of which 1350 dunums are considered built-up area. About 11218 dunums of  Turmus’ayya lands are classified as  Area B (PA is in charge of civil matters with Israel responsible of security) where 6921 dunums are classified as  Area C (Israel maintains full security and administrative control).

The Israeli occupation confiscated vast areas from the village for the benefit of the following colonies:

  1. Shilo and Mizpe Rahel devoured 1023 dunums
  2. Mizpe Rahel  devoured 706 dunums
  3. The bypass road number 60 stole 12.5 dunums


Prepared by
 The Land Research Center

Categories: Settlers Attacks