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<p><strong>03 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement</strong></p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text">Construction of Zeid Amran&#8217;s house</p>
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<p>On  Friday afternoon at around 4.30 pm, three young men from the village of  Burin, south of Nablus, were attacked by two settlers while picking  “akoob” (a plant used in cooking) in the mountains. The men were around  200 meters away from the illegal settlement of Bracha when two settlers  attacked them by throwing stones. Ten minutes later, 35 more masked  settlers, two of them carrying M16 rifles, came down to attack the three  men. When the villagers of Burin came to protect the men by throwing  stones, settlers started firing live ammunition at them, forcing them to  hide behind rocks.One settler shouted at the villagers, in Arabic: “We should burn you, you are rubbish!”</p>
<p>At approximately  5.30 pm, one hour after the settlers had arrived,  the Israeli army came and forced the villagers to leave their land,  while the settlers were allowed to stay.</p>
<p>Again, yesterday at around 10.30 am, five villagers were attacked by  settlers while they were constructing a house. 18 settlers, of whom two  were carrying guns, attacked the workers by throwing stones at them and  their tractors and prevented them from doing their work. The workers  called the Red Cross and asked them to call the Israeli army to come and  stop the settlers. Around 30 minutes later the army came, but the  settlers had already left. When the villagers told the soldiers what  have happened, the soldiers called them liars, telling them that the  settlers would never attack on a Saturday since it is the holy day for  Jewish people.<br />
Then at around 4 pm, the settlers came back and attacked the workers  again, throwing stones at them and their families. Again by the time the  military had come, the settlers were already gone, and instead of  helping the villagers, the soldiers prevented the workers from driving  their tractors to get water and soil some 100 meters up the road,  threatening to shoot them.</p>
<p>Today at 9.30 am around 30 settlers, of whom three were carrying  guns, attacked the five workers once again with stones. 30 minutes  later, the Israeli army arrived with four military jeeps, but as in the  previous incidents, the settlers had left just before the army came. The  two houses under construction belong to the two brothers Zeid and  Ghassan Amran. Their family have been under constant attack since they  started to build the first house last year. Ghassan Amran lives with his  family in one of the houses, he is scared that something will happen to  his children, three boys aged three, seven and eight years old.</p>
<p>The village of Burin is surrounded by the illegal Israeli settlements  of Bracha in the north, and Yitzar in the south. The settlers make  regular visits to the village and in previous incidents have destroyed  olive trees, stolen and shot animals, set crops and houses and cars on  fire, destroyed homes, shot at people with live ammunition and fired  rockets at the village.</p>
<p>In other similar incidents in the Nablus area, according to <a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=375152">Ma’an News Agency</a>,  Imad Husni Salahat, 47, was severely beaten by settlers in Kawkab Salah  near the illegal settlement of Ma’ale Efrayim yesterday. The same day,  settlers from the illegal settlement of Yitzar destroyed water pipes  south of the village of Madama.</p>
<p>Also, on the night between Wednesday and Thursday, in the village of  Aqraba, south east of Nablus, 400 olive trees that had been planted  three months earlier, were uprooted and stolen by settlers from the  illegal settlement of Itamar. The week before 300 olive trees were  uprooted and three wells were destroyed in a settler attack on the  village land.</p>
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<p class="wp-caption-text">Illegal settlement of Bracha</p>
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