Washington Post: In West Bank, Palestinians gird for settler attacks on olive trees... Last year, the United Nations reported that Israeli settlers damaged or destroyed nearly 11,000 olive trees owned by the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

In the West Bank, broken olive branches VIDEO http://wapo.st/1x7B9J6  via @PostTV

 The Post's William Booth's takes PostTV to the village of Yassuf where olives are a way of life. (William Booth and Nicki DeMarco/The Washington Post)

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Middle East

In West Bank, Palestinians gird for settler attacks on olive trees

By William Booth October 22

 

KFAR YASSUF, West Bank — The rains have come to wash away the dust of summer from the olives, and so the annual harvest begins — and with it, another cycle of violence against man and tree.

Mohammad Hamoudah and his wife were picking olives in their grove last week when he saw five or six men darting among the trees, their faces hidden by scarves, carrying sticks and shepherd’s crooks.

“We ran for the car,” said Hamoudah, a Palestinian from this village south of Nablus. The assailants smashed a window with a club. They struck his wife on the leg. “They were savages,” he said...READ MORE