In the early morning hours of Saturday, 12 February 2022, members of the Hameidat and Ghaneimat family discovered that settlers had cut down 120 olive and almond trees on their land east of the village.
In a testimony he gave B'Tselem field researcher Naser Nawaj'ah on 16 February 2022, Jifara Hameidat (42), one of the landowners, recounted:
On 12 February 2022, I went with my brothers to our land – four dunams (1 dunam = 1,000 square meters) east of the village – to spray the olive trees. When we got there, we discovered that settlers had vandalized a fence, about 100-meters long, that surrounds the plot. Inside the plot, we discovered that some of the trees had been uprooted or cut down with a chainsaw. I called the village council and asked their representatives and the Palestinian DCO to come. A municipal vehicle arrived, and then about 30 youths from the settlement, who looked about 15 to 18 years old, attacked it. Some were masked, and some were holding clubs or knives. One of them, who looked older, was armed with a rifle. Meanwhile, more soldiers arrived from the direction of the Bat 'Ein settlement, which was established about a kilometer from my land. I wanted to talk to the soldiers, but the settlers threw stones at me and at other village residents who were standing a little higher up. The soldiers ordered us to leave and fired tear gas at us, and the settlers went back to the tent they put up on land they've taken over, which they stay in on Fridays and Saturdays.
When I got home, I found out I'd lost my phone. The next day, I went back there with my brother to look for it, but then the settlers showed up again and attacked us, so we had to go home.