Three friends from the town of Abu Falah went for a stroll before the Ramadan evening meal. It was a Saturday evening, 16 May 2020. One of them brought his three kids along.
The men drove in two vehicles – Yazan Dawabsheh (23) in a car and his two friends in a jeep. They headed to the a-Sader area, east of Turmusaya, about a kilometer from where the settlement outpost of Adei Ad lies. When they reached their destination, Yazan parked his car and joined his friends in the jeep, as they were entering an unpaved path. They drove on for about 200 meters, parked and began their stroll.
Suddenly, an old black car with off-road tires appeared from the direction of Adei Ad and stopped by Dawabsheh’s car. Four masked settlers, armed with iron pipes and axes, got out and started hitting the car from all sides. Although the attack lasted less than a minute, they caused heavy damage. When the settlers heard Dawabsheh and his friends’ yelling, they got back in their car and left.
The next day, Yazan Dawabsheh described his feelings in a testimony he gave to B’Tselem field researcher Iyad Hadad:
Within seconds, the settlers turned our outing into a terrible experience. We came back to the village shaken and in a bad mood. They destroyed nearly all the car's windows, including the windshield, broke the camera, and smashed the front mirror and a side mirror.
The repair will cost about 15,000 shekels (~4,280 USD). I don’t see the point in filing a complaint with the police, because the result is foregone. The police always take the settlers’ side, and that’s why it’s useless.