In the village of Salem, as elsewhere in the West Bank, Palestinians are forced to harvest their olives according to the whims and restrictions of Israeli authorities.
As every year in October, Palestinian families in the West Bank head to their groves in order to begin the olive harvest season. The harvest for any given family might take a few days or several weeks depending on the number of olive trees they have.
In the village of Salem, near Nablus, the daily olive harvest routine is for families to go out at 6:00 in the morning and work until sunset. All family members participate in the harvest, from children to the elderly. The families that have groves near their houses and far from settlements can work freely. Families that have groves near Israeli settlements, military bases or bypass roads can only harvest according to a schedule imposed by Israeli authorities.
This year, Israeli authorities gave only five days to Salem residents who have lands behind the Israeli bypass road and nearby settlement outposts of Elon Moreh. These families have to finish their harvest in this limited time regardless of their number of olive trees.
Some families decided to start harvesting on the days before those dictated by the Israeli authorities’ schedule in order to be able to finish all of their trees. Some succeeded, while others were caught by Israeli authorities and forced to stop working and leave their land. At the same time, other residents said that soldiers forced them to stop the harvest at noon even on days that were supposed to be allowed according to the schedule.
In areas such as these, Israeli authorities allow these farmers to reach their lands only two times per year: Once in April for tilling soil, and again in October for the olive harvest. After months of being prevented from reaching their land, farmers might discover new problems. Some reported that they found dozens of damaged olive trees, which they assume were vandalized by Israeli settlers. Others have discovered new settlement outposts being built nearby. The growth of settlements can mean increased movement restrictions in years to come.
In recent years, the olive harvest has become a time of increased violence by Israeli settlers toward Palestinian residents and their trees. A Palestinian woman harvesting olives in the village of Kfar Yassuf near Nablus was hospitalized earlier this week after being beaten with a stick in a case in which two Israeli settlers were arrested, one of them a minor. But such arrests are the exception. According to the Israeli human rights group Yesh Din, violence against Palestinians and their property during olive harvest season and throughout the year is rarely investigated. Of the 246 files opened by Israeli police in the West Bank monitored by Yesh Din, just four led to indictments, with 223 files closed due to investigative failures. This 96.6 percent failure rate, according to Yesh Din, shows that the ability of Israeli authorities “to identify and prosecute offenders involved in deliberate damage to Palestinian trees is particularly poor, and effectively almost non-existent.”
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They will not stop until they are stopped. No more need be said on this.
Can you imagine how insane this is. These zios are treating the Palestinians as slaves and compound their misery by not letting them take in their crops. Just unreal!!
This is worst than slavery, how is it possible for humans to do this to other humans? The Palestinians own the land, they allowed 2 days a year tilling their land and two days of the year to harvest their crop. Then these Zionists build settlements on the Palestinian land for 360 days of the year; and yet they wonder why there is resentment and hatred towards Zionists?
This is the height of arrogance. If the Zionists want peace then they must listen to my Jewish friend, Einstein.
“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding”. – Albert Einstein
Unfortunately for your worldview, it’s not just the zionists that are the problem. It’s all the jews. If you’ll notice, there isn’t a single solitary jew on the face of this Earth, that is an actual, real anti-zionist (anti the state of israel). It’s a big con game. Some jews play the good cop, and pretend to care about human rights and non-jews but all they’re doing is pulling the wool over our eyes, trying to put the Gentiles back to sleep. Of course the bad cop jews are easy enough to spot. Both sides want israel to survive at all costs, even if that means “sleeping” with the enemy i.e. pretending to care about Gentiles.
There are NO good jews. They’re all lying, deceitful, conniving bastards. Everyday I find that to be more true than the day before. All of the “good’ jews I’ve come into contact with, I later found them to be snakes in the grass. They will say and do whatever so their satanic God-forbidden nation will live and to protect the tribe. They hate God and everything good associated, with a passion. It’s the core of their identity.
jews and peace/coexistence go together like oil and water.