Monday, March 6, 2023

‘They ransack our village for sport’: one Palestinian farmer’s story of Israeli settler violence

My village is situated in a valley, now surrounded on three sides by the illegal Israeli settlements of Yitzhar, Har Bracha and Givat Ronin. These hilltop towns loom over us as they get bigger and bigger, and more and more threatening. The settlers, many from America, are extremists, who simply want our land and even to destroy us. This was brought home to me after speaking to my daughter on Wednesday night. She told me how Bezalel Smotrich, Israel's minister for civilian affairs in the West Bank, had said that he wants Huwara "wiped out". Then, on Friday evening, I learnt that the Israelis had put up posters calling on settlers to "obliterate" the town...

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