- Title: WEST BANK: Clashes in West Bank during olive harvest
- Date: 12th October 2008
- Summary: (BN11) NEAR NABLUS - BOREEN, WEST BANK (OCTOBER 11, 2008) (REUTERS) OLIVE FIELDS IN VILLAGE OF BOREEN WHERE PALESTINIAN OLIVE HARVESTERS WERE ATTACKED BY JEWISH SETTLERS DURING OLIVE HARVESTING OLIVE FIELD IN FRONT OF ITZAR SETTLEMENT ON HILLTOP MORE OF ITZAR SETTLEMENT AMBULANCE PARKED IN AREA WHERE PALESTINIAN OLIVE HARVESTERS WERE ATTACKED BY JEWISH SETTLERS AMBULANCE N
- Embargoed: 27th October 2008 12:00
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- Topics: Economic News,Domestic Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA5DF5W0MR1041Z8IS5P99TN7TH
- Story Text: Jewish settlers attack Palestinian farmers with stones near the West Bank city of Nablus during the olive harvest.
The annual olive harvest is underway in the West Bank. But once again it has seen an outbreak of violence.
Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian farmers with stones near Nablus on Saturday (October 11) as they began picking the olives.
Mustafa Najjar, one of the olive pickers claimed the Israeli army supported the settlers.
An Israeli army spokesman said soldiers arrived at the scene to try to separate the settlers and the olive pickers, had fired a number of shots into the air to stop the altercation, and it soon ended.
There has been trouble over the past ten years at harvest time between Palestinian farmers and militant Israeli settlers who have illegally built their homes on land next to Palestinian villages and their adjacent agricultural areas, much of which is populated by olive trees.
Palestinians say settler harrassment often turns to encroachment and eventually seizure of more land in the name of settler "security". - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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