"I have seen the checkpoints, the barriers. I've seen everything with my own eyes and I think any decent person cannot sit indifferent to this. It is beyond the issue of Jews and Arabs," he said.
He added: "Here everybody sees it, but not everybody refers to it … the settlement is a few metres from them on their land, and they are in heartbreaking poverty, and then the police come to demolish the house, and this is legal? It's beyond politics."
Two border police officers who allege Nawi punched them as they took part in the demolition.
In his defence, Nawi admits he shouted, protested and lay in front of the bulldozer, but insists he did not strike the officers.