Every Saturday, sheep owned by Jewish settlers march through the olive groves that Rezeq Abu Naim and his family have tended for generations, crushing tree limbs and damaging roots. The extremist settlers, armed and sometimes masked, lead their herds to drink from the family’s scant water supplies while Mr. Abu Naim watches from the ramshackle tents of Al Mughayir, where he lives above the valley.
“I beg you, I beg you. God, just let us be,’” Mr. Abu Naim recalled telling settlers during a recent confrontation. “Just go away. We don’t want any problems.”
Vast stretches of his family’s farm and wheat have been seized by Israeli settlers who have set up outposts, illegal encampments that can eventually grow to become large settlements, on the nearby hills.
mrdown @lemmy.world - 11hr
Slow ethenic cleansing
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A_norny_mousse @feddit.org - 10hr
“I beg you, I beg you. God, just let us be,’” Mr. Abu Naim recalled telling settlers during a recent confrontation. “Just go away. We don’t want any problems.”
Heartbreaking.
I hope Israel will pay for its crimes eventually.
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Avid Amoeba - 7hr
It would be amazing if we could stop calling them "extremist settlers." Settlers, or just Israelis is more descriptive of who and what they are.
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Land Grab: Inside Israel’s Escalating Campaign for Control of the West Bank
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/20/world/middleeast/west-bank-settlements.htmlcross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40622582
Slow ethenic cleansing
Heartbreaking.
I hope Israel will pay for its crimes eventually.
It would be amazing if we could stop calling them "extremist settlers." Settlers, or just Israelis is more descriptive of who and what they are.