Khirbet a-Tawamin, South Hebron Hills: Settlers cut down 300 olive trees and destroy irrigation system

Barakat Mor (60), a father of 11, is a farmer from the Palestinian community of Khirbet a-Tawamin in the South Hebron Hills. On Saturday, 22 August 2020, he arrived at his plot, which lies southeast of the settlement of Susiya. He discovered that settlers had cut down 300 fruit-yielding olive trees with a chainsaw, destroyed part of an irrigation system connected to a well and torn down a shade sail he had put up for resting.

Mor called the Israel Police. About 15 minutes later, officers arrived, took a statement from him and asked him to file a complaint at the police station in Kiryat Arba. Mor followed their advice, but as of 6 June 2020 has not heard any update about an investigation.