As an Israeli minister calls for a Palestinian town to be ‘wiped out’, an olive farmer tells of living with fear in the West Bank
Sadly, this is nothing new – though the intensity these past few days has been very frightening.
Palestinians help an injured young man during clashes with Israeli settlers in the village of Burin near Nablus city in the West Bank on 25 February., and want a two-state solution. And I certainly do not hate Israelis or Jews. It is the settlers who are the problem – uncontrolled, with the Israeli army, supposedly there to protect us, usually turning a blind eye.
The day we started – 1 November – the settlers began their attacks. The next day I went to look to find that they had uprooted trees – some hundreds of years old. Others were cut down to their trunks with the olive branches taken.Every so often, the self-styled head of security from Yitzhar drives in his huge car into my fields to tell me that they “belong to his people”. I sometimes try to engage in conversation, but to no avail.
Despite all this, I want to carry on, in memory of my late father. It is the children and young people I especially feel for. Their future is not safe. It is also affecting them psychologically, with many suffering from mental health issues. There is a high dropout rate among the boys at our secondary school. It is similar in many other nearby villages and towns – with Palestinians either evicted or simply leaving, in despair, to live in other countries.
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