Settlers attack Palestinian farmers in Beit Ummar
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=668168
HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers and their families in the Wadi Abu al-Reesh area in the southern West Bank near Beit Ummar on Saturday evening, a local spokesperson said.
Muhammad Ayyad Awad, a spokesman for Beit Ummar's local committee against settlement activities, told Ma'an that settlers wearing masks and white uniforms threw stones at farmers and swore at them both in Arabic and Hebrew.
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The farmers had to leave their fields immediately because many of them were accompanied by their children and they were worried for their safety, added Awad.
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The soldiers watched as settlers vandalized olive trees and instead of stopping them, the soldiers inspected the identity cards of the Palestinian farmers and prevented them from taking photos with their mobile phones.
Hey, reading DUers. We, meaning the USA pay the Israelis billions annually and 10s of billions a decade while this travesty continues.
The settlements are illegal. The settlers are illegal, and yet Israel allows this to continue. The USA allows this to continue.
This is our tax dollars at work footing the bill for the apartheid picnic.