Salim Dar ‘Awad (68) from Turmusaya, a father of 14, owns four dunams of land [1 dunam = 1,000 sq. meters] about five kilometers east of Turmusaya. In 2018, settlers uprooted almost 100 olive seedlings he had planted. He immediately planted 150 new ones and put up a fence, about 300 meters long and two meters high, around the plot. This April, settlers vandalized the fence, stole some of the posts and broke tree branches. Dar ‘Awad repaired the damage and rebuilt the fence.
On the morning of 20 July 2020, at around 7:00 A.M., a shepherd from the village called Dar ‘Awad and told him that once again, parts of the fence had been vandalized and posts stolen. He drove to the plot right away and discovered that settlers had stolen 150 posts from the fence (which cost about 20 NIS or 8 USD each). He was relieved to find that they had spared the olive seedlings, this time.
The settlement of Adei Ad was established about a kilometer from Dar ‘Awad’s plot.
Dar ‘Awad filed a complaint at the Binyamin police station, and police officers came to his plot to photograph the damage.