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 Hamadallah Afanah, 43, was on his way to pass through an Israeli checkpoint to return to his home in Nablus, in the northern West Bank, when he was violently assaulted by a group of Israeli settlers. The settlers broke the windows of his car and slashed the car's tires.
The area where Afanah was attacked was near his family's ancestral olive groves, “within 100 meters of an Israeli checkpoint”, according to Afanah. Israeli settlers had, in recent years, constructed a settlement near Afanah's olive grove, called 'Alon Moriah'. Dozens of homes have been constructed in the colony, and Israeli civilians have moved into those homes, in direct violation of international law and signed agreements between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority.
The settlers who attacked Afanah came out of the colony of 'Alon Moriah'. Afanah reported that the settlers shouted at him, and were apparently angry that he had been given a three-day permit by Israeli authorities to harvest his family's olives.
Israeli settlers living illegally in the Palestinian Territories in fenced-in colonies have engaged in a number of attacks on Palestinian olive harvesters. The lands where Palestinian ancestral olive groves are located are, in many cases, areas where Israeli settlers hope to expand their colonies. So the settlers use violence and terror to try to force the Palestinians to lose their olive harvests, which are, in many cases, the Palestinians' only source of livelihood.
The settlers are very rarely penalized for these attacks against unarmed Palestinians, as there is no legal recourse for Palestinians who are attacked. Israeli soldiers, who act as an occupying army over all of the Palestinian territories, often protect the settlers as they engage in violent assaults against the indigenous Palestinian population. |
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