A member of the family told CPTers, said “I have tended these trees since I have been very young and they have killed them…We raise these trees like children; they grow up and then (the settlers) kill them when they are all grown just so they can have our land.”   

 According to Ma’an News, the family estimated that the immediate damage to the property reaches thousands of dollars.  Additionally, the grapes harvests from this arbor would have fed (currently) three families with nineteen children.  The grapevines would have continued to produce grapes for forty to fifty years, if they had not been killed on 20 September.

 The Sultan property lies adjacent to the settlement of Givat Ha Harsina; settlers gained access to this field by cutting a wire fence erected to protect these fields.  Israeli police told CPT that they would not be able to pursue the perpetrators because "no evidence" could be linked to the perpetrators.

This incident continues a pattern of destruction of property and harassment that settlers from Givat Ha Harsina have carried out on these villagers.  Earlier this month, settlers damaged other fields; on the weekend of 12 September, there were several incidents of settlers throwing stones at vehicles belonging to local residents.