On 23 January 2021, some 10 settlers, including the security coordinator of Har Bracha, and about five soldiers, arrived at the outskirts of the northeastern neighborhood of Burin. The settlers began stoning a house under construction, about a kilometer away from the settlement outpost of Sneh Ya’akov (Givat Ronen). At the time, the owner, Ibrahim ‘Eid (43), and several workers were at the house. Several villagers gathered at the scene and defended the home from the settlers. Shortly afterward, the settlers left without causing damage.
This was the third attack on ‘Eid’s home by settlers since June 2020: On 18 June 2020, settlers threw stones at the home, breaking its water pipes and torching olive and almond groves in its vicinity. Soldiers who came to the area hurled tear gas canisters and fired rubber-coated metal bullets at residents who had gathered to defend the property. On 9 October 2020, settlers stoned the neighborhood’s homes. A short while later, the security coordinator of Har Bracha stopped a village resident passing by, smashed his car window, fired two shots in the air, grabbed him and handed him over to the soldiers, who detained him for three days for no reason. On 10 October 2020, settlers threw stones at the home, breaking several of its windows. This time, too, soldiers arrived and hurled tear gas canisters at the residents.
The residents of Burin, which is flanked by the settlements of Har Bracha and Yitzhar, have been suffering from repeated attacks by settlers for years. Yitzhar was established in the 1980s about a kilometer south of the village, and Har Bracha was established about a kilometer to the northeast, both on land belonging to Burin and neighboring villages.