Israel blocks Palestinian farmers' olive harvest

The Israeli army prevented Palestinian farmers from going to their lands to harvest olives in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah. The PLO-affiliated Council Against Separation and Jewish Settlements and the Ramallah Governorate organized an event in the village of Berka, east of Ramallah, to support Palestinian farmers and protect them from attacks by Israelis who have usurped their lands. Berka Village Council President Sayil Kenan told AA that Israeli soldiers prevented farmers from entering the al-Maraj area on the grounds that it was adjacent to a settlement built on land usurped from Palestinians. Kenan noted that a large military force had arrived in the area and that the Israelis were positioned on a nearby hill. Kenan emphasized that the Israelis who had usurped Palestinian lands prevented farmers from going to the olive harvest in the village of Berka and set the fields on fire, and that the soldiers protected the Israelis in these attacks and even doubled the ...