Palestinian farmers face daily harrasement from settlers
saleh on November 24th, 2005Six settler girls from Benjamin, a settlement Northwest of the West Bank city of Ramallah, attacked Palestinian farmers while they were working in olive orchards in the nearby village of Sinjil.
Rabbi Arik Ascherman, of the organization, Rabbis for Human Rights (which assists Palestinian residents in the region with the annual olive harvest) said that “This is not the first time those girls have caused trouble there. For years there have been problems of all sorts with crop theft.?
Reports such as these are common place, the vast majority go undocumented as the judicial system ignores Arabs. The farmers are powerless even to defend themselves against such attacks, for to do so would result in the full force of the Israeli millitary decending upon them.
