[ 22/10/2011 - 07:42 AM ]
NABLUS, (PIC)-- Jewish settlers on Friday attacked a group of around 200 Palestinians who were picking olives in the village of Jalud near the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
Eyewitnesses said that the olive pickers consisted of the farmers themselves and Palestinian and foreign volunteers who came to the village to help them harvest their crop.Head of the village council Abdullah Qasem said that a group of settlers attacked the olive harvesters and that fist fights broke out before IOF troops arrived and fired teargas extensively causing dozens of cases of breathing difficulty.
Palestinian medical sources said that 3 injured people were taken to Rafidia hospital.
On Thursday a Palestinian woman picking olives in Beit Fourik ended up with two broken legs when settlers attacked her and her two teenage sons.
Woman flees harvest to escape violent settlers and wild boars
ISM West Bank 20 Oct -- Early Thursday morning, a Palestinian woman in Beit Furik was picking olives when a settler began to chase her and set loose wild hogs to chase after her, causing her to fall and suffer broken bones in both her legs. Muhaya Khatatba was in her olive groves with her two sons, aged 14 and 17 years old, when a settler descended from above the hill and began to chase her. "I was with my kids picking olives, when a settler saw us, and took advantage of the fact that we were all alone," said Khatatba. Then the settler released wild boars after her. She beckoned to her boys to run ahead of her, and as she ran, she tripped on some rocks and broke her leg. She struggled to begin running again, using one leg, and fell again, breaking the other leg. Unable to stand, her boys ran back to pick her up and ran with her to meet other villagers.
http://palsolidarity.org/2011/10/woman-flees-harvest-to-escape-violent-settlers-and-wild-boars/
Israeli military and Zionists ambush olive harvest in Beit Furik
ISM West Bank 21 Oct -- The Palestinian family El Jobor was unsuccessful in their attempt to harvest olives today as they met resistance from Jewish settlers and Israeli soldiers originating out of the Itamar settlement. Accompanied by ISM volunteers the family climbed the hillside above Beit Furik and marched through the olive groves to within roughly 400 meters of the Jewish settlement, which sits atop the hill’s mount, before being confronted and forced back down towards their home.
http://palsolidarity.org/2011/10/israeli-military-and-zionists-ambush-olive-harvest-in-beit-furik/
Olive harvest brings confrontations near Jalud / Joseph Dana
972mag 21 Oct -- On the outskirts of the northern West Bank village of Qasra, a 19 year old resident recently told me that settlers are not going to stop attacking Palestinians simply because they don’t have to. According to the man, settlers live in a world of no consequence as if removed from the normal social contract of Western societies. One look at this year’s olive harvest, taking place throughout the West Bank over the next two weeks, proves the statement correct.
http://972mag.com/olive-harvest-brings-confrontations-near-jalud/26112/
Settlers attack farmers, foreign volunteers harvesting olives
NABLUS (WAFA) 21 Oct -- A group of settlers attacked on Friday Palestinians, Israeli and foreign solidarity volunteers helping farmers to harvest olives in the village of Jalud, south of Nablus, injuring four of them and causing three suffocation cases, according to local sources. The coordinator of the campaign “we are with you”; a campaign to help farmers to harvest olives, Khaled Mansour told WAFA that settlers attacked the farmers and the volunteers with batons and rifle butts, injuring four of them and causing three cases of suffocation by tear gas bombs. Among the injured were Israeli peace activists from “fighters for freedom,” he said.
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=17827
While village attended funeral, Zionists stole
[photos] ISM West Bank 18 Oct -- On Tuesday, a family in Kufr Qalil cancelled all olive harvest because of the death of a family member. While the people in the household were at the cemetery to attend the funeral, settlers from the adjacent Berakha settlement took the opportunity to visit the household’s farmland. A shepherd witnessed how the settlers stole the furniture, equipment and tools (including a chain saw) that were used by the farmers during the olive harvest. The farmer family in Kafr Qalil has been harassed by settlers earlier. Five years ago, settlers cut down all almond trees in the yard.
http://palsolidarity.org/2011/10/while-village-attended-funeral-zionists-stole/
River to Sea
Uprooted Palestinian
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