[Note: According to the Fourth Geneva Convention, the Hague Regulations, the International Court of Justice, and several United Nations resolutions, all Israeli settlements and outposts in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are illegal.  Most settlement outposts, including Havat Ma'on (Hill 833), are considered illegal also under Israeli law.]

During the night of the 28 December 2010, Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian village of Susiya, setting fire to a house-tent containing a sleeping family.  Around 3.00 a.m., the fire, caused by bottles filled with a flammable substance, awoke the villagers.  They then saw three settlers from the nearby settlement of Suseya running toward a car.

The owners of the burned house-tent made a complaint to the Kiryat Arba police station.  One villager told members of Operation Dove, who with CPT have had a presence in the village since 2004, “Someone who throws a bottle of oil here it means to kill people…We want the police to investigate fairly and to arrest the settlers.”

According to Yesh Din, an Israeli human rights organization, 92% of police investigations following complaints filed by Palestinians against Israeli settlers end in a failure: the complaints are lost, or the files  closed after the police fail to find suspects or present sufficient evidence against suspects.

Operation Dove photos are available here.  Video is available here.