Land Research Center

Violation: vandalization acts

Location:  Al-Lubban Al-Sharqiyavillage

Date:  April 17, 2018

Perpetrators: Price Tag colonists

Victims: 32 residents from the town

Details:

At down of April 17, 2018, a group of fanatic colonists relative to Price Tag gang slashed tires of several cars and wrote discrimination slogans on walls in Al-Lubban Al-Sharqiya village, south Nablus city.

Reportedly, the group, who sneaked into the village at dawn and carried out the attack while residents were asleep, come from Levona outpost that is founded on confiscated lands from the village.

The chairman of Al-Lubban Al-Sharqiya village council, Sami Ghalib, told Land Research Center that 32 vehicles got their tires slashed and that six houses were vandalized with hate writings on them.

the attacked cars

some of the hatred slogans

Price-tag group:

 A terrorist group that is comprised of right wing activists carrying out systematic  and/or 'strategic' attacks all over the West Bank, including Jerusalem, and the 1948-occupied Palestine under the protection and support of the Israeli Army. The price-tag campaign includes attacks on Palestinian-owned property like lands, crops and vehicles as well as attacks on religious sites and writing enticing and offensive slogans among others.  One of its infamous slogans is "A good Arab is a dead one" which openly calls for murder and racism. Most price taggers are Yeshiva students  aged between 18-23 years. They first appeared in 2008 and have been growing since.

About al-Lubban al-Sharqiya:

It is located 22km to southwest of Nablus governorate. The village is surrounded by a number of towns and communities namely( al-Sawiya, Qaryut, Ammoriya, Yasuf, Singel, Abouyn, Salfit and Iskaka)

The village has a total land area of 15,637 of which 255 dunums are built -up area. 240 dunums are considered agricultural lands for grains and vegetables plantation where another 700 dunums have been subject to colonial activities. The bypass road no.60 confiscated around 200 dumums where the rest of the land total area is planted with olive, almond and figs. (source: geographical information system GIS -LRC)

Awaysa and Daraghmeh clans are the two main families in the village where the population totals around 2900 people. The unemployment rate is around 51% due to closures, sieges, and lands confiscation. Only 14% of the residents are employed in different sectors such like the governmental and the private ones. Others depend on farming as a source of living.( source: the town's village council).

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