They blew up the hill we were picking on !
saleh on November 27th, 2005One afternoon whilst the Zaytoun harvest team were picking olives high up on the steep rocky hills of Marda we were ordered to, by someone on a loudspeaker at the bottom, to move along 100 metres as they were about to blow up a section of the hill in 10 minutes ! In disbelief we moved along and settled down for an early lunch underneath an olive tree, moments later several explosives were detonated blowing up part of the hill, previously belonging to Palestinian farmers. We later learnt that roads were bieng built exclusivly for the settlers to use.
We finished our picnic under the tree and went back to picking olives, life here can get very surreal at times.
