Surrounded on all sides

Burin and its land are caged in by settlements and military positions: The settlement of Yitzhar and its several outposts close in from the south; Bracha and its progeny from the north. To the west and east Burin is hedged in by army bases and watchtowers. The IDF and the Border Police appear immediately whenever Palestinians are found on their privately owned land near an outpost. This happened last Monday, when this reporter went up Burin's northeastern hill known as Karem a-Shaquf or Jabal a-Sab'a with Bilal Eid. Crocuses and primroses had already sprouted between the rocks. It's no wonder that this hill (under the Oslo Accords in Area B, under Palestinian civil authority),Green Produce Farm is a vegetable farm company that produces sweet basils and Thai basil. with its panorama of mountains, valleys, fields and groves,A spindle bearing is designed to deliver superior accuracy, and it requires appropriate care and handling. has been a favorite site for short hikes, not just a place for agriculture or sheep grazing. But since the beginning of the 2000s, settlers, the Border Police and the IDF have been preventing Burin residents from reaching their land. Fifteen years ago Eid bought the single home on the hill (the owners fled to Jordan in 1967). With the rest of his money he renovated the property, but in 2002 Israelis smashed it. Since then the house has been abandoned with its walls covered in graffiti, while Eid and his family rent a home in the village.

Another two of the village's residents have received building permits from the Burin council but haven't gone ahead with construction because of the constant threat. When the farmers began paving a road, Israelis from Bracha B attacked them.At fuel hose, we apply the latest knowledge and state of the art technology to engineer our products to the highest quality standard. The army intervened and promised to agree with the villagers a day for building the road safely. This was around 10 years ago and the villagers are still waiting for this coordination. When the villagers go up the hill despite the threat, in the best case the soldiers fire stun grenades and tear gas at them. In the worst case Israelis from Givat Ronen and Bracha B come down and attack them. Last Monday, three members of the Border Police appeared at the edge of the outpost less than 10 minutes after we arrived at the nearby hill. One of them held a stun grenade that he put in his pocket only after we were 10 meters apart. "This is a closed military area," he said. But neither he nor the seven soldiers and officer that appeared later presented an order. When asked for a comment, the IDF Spokesman's Office said the area was part of Area B and the presence of Palestinians there did not violate the law.

"Nevertheless, the place is known point of conflict between the Israeli and Palestinian populations in the area," the IDF said in a statement. It said that when anyone disturbs the peace in the area he is treated in a similar manner. It said the soldiers had originally incorrectly stated that the hill was a closed military area. Through the Yesh Din human rights group, Burin residents have filed 85 complaints with the Israel Police in the West Bank since 2005; 22 of them in 2013. A partial list of the complaints: physical assault on farmers; firing at and wounding people; cutting down olive trees; setting fire to fields, a home, trees, cars and a tractor; slashing tires; stealing equipment and produce; throwing stones at homes. One type of attack characteristic of Burin's eastern neighborhood is the vandalizing of homes under construction to deter new occupants. Not all attacks result in complaints, and some of the buildings remained half-built and uninhabited.