Desertpeace "Innocent" Settlers
NABLUS (Ma’an) -- Israeli settlers began harvesting Palestinian olives on Monday in the northern West Bank district of Qalqiliya and Nablus, a Palestinian Authority official said.
Ghassan Doughlas, who heads the PA file on northern settlement activity, said settlers brought sheets and ladders "as though they were the owners of the land" and started harvesting the olives from Palestinian land.
In Nablus, Doughlas said settlers from Yitzhar ascended on the Palestinian olive groves in the Burin village to harvest them, while in Qalqiliya, settlers from the illegal Ramat Gil'ad and Gil'ad outposts picked olives from the Palestinian villages of Jinsafut and Far'ata.
The official described the move as a "flagrant violation of Palestinian rights."
Meanwhile, a source in the Burin village said clashes broke out between settlers and villagers as locals threw stones to prevent settlers from harvesting Palestinian crops.
[ 20/09/2010 - 06:59 PM ]
AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Israeli settlers destroyed Monday over one hundred fruit trees in the Bouira region in Al-Khalil.
The settlers set out from the Kharsina settlement, which was established in the region, to raid a vineyard and uprooted more than a hundred trees and stole farming equipment.
The one dunum area farmland belongs to Palestinian farmer Sufyan Sultan.
Sultan says he contacted media and filed a complaint to the Red Cross and other human rights organizations.
In the same context, local sources said Israeli forces officially warned farmer Mohammed Ibrahim al-Khamaysa they will seize his 40-dunum land in the Faz’a region west of the Al-Khalil city of Doura, alleging that the property belongs to the state.
In another incident, Israelis from the Bracha settlement, established in the southwest Nablus village of Burin, attacked villagers to steal their olive harvest, but they were confronted by the villagers and other Palestinians.
A group of settlers attempted to steal olives belonging to the villagers ahead of clashes that erupted between them and Palestinians, local sources said. A man in his thirties was inured in the conflict.
Israeli soldiers arrived at the scene, but did not make an apparent effort to thwart the settlers’ attack, the sources added.
Agha denounces annual Zionist "massacre" of harvesting season
[ 21/09/2010 - 09:13 AM ]
GAZA, (PIC)-- Palestinian Minister of Agriculture Mohamed Ramadan Al-Agha warned Monday that this year’s olive season will be lost in light of ongoing crimes by Israeli settlers against Palestinian farmers in the West Bank.
Agha, in a press release, condemned what he called the annual olive season massacre, in which settlers under Israeli military protection throughout the olive harvesting season vandalize, destroy and burn olive trees and steal crops year after year.
“The Zionist audacity has gone to the extent that settlers in Nablus and Qalqiliya villages harvest and steal olives in broad daylight,” Agha said.
The minister urged human rights and international groups to shed light on the daily violations of those settlers and Israeli occupation forces of Palestinian villages and villagers.
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