The showdown over the land lease for the Cows’ Garden parking lot area moved from the courts into the lot itself on November 5, 2023.
Around 3:00 p.m., developer and majority shareholder Danny Rothman of Xana Capital Ltd. arrived at the site with about 15 armed settlers and two large leashed attack dogs, pepper spray, a bulldozer, and his business partner and Israeli citizen George Warwar (also known as George Haddad).
They set to work tearing up the parking lot pavement into large chunks.
The armed Xana men ominously formed a line to block community members from accessing the work site and were also filming them as they began protesting.