Summary
Director of the land and farming cooperative in Burin who documents settler attacks in the Nablus area; his testimony, told to Maya Rosen on 19 October 2023, is the fourth of the “Dispatches from the West Bank” in Chapter 7 of From the River to the Sea (From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine, lines 540-552).
Details
- The olive harvest, Burin’s most important, is blocked this year even between the houses inside the village; settlers and soldiers attack together and about 100 attacked the village the previous night (lines 543-545).
- “The soldiers work with the settlers; the soldiers are settlers.” Settlers have been given soldiers’ uniforms, and the pre-war army coordination with farmers has ended (line 547).
- Farmers go to their land every day anyway, even just to drink tea: “Because if we don’t, the land will become a military area, and after that, the settlers will come and take it.” (line 549)
Related pages
From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine, Burin, Nablus, Sumoud