Gaza farmers face Israeli bullets to harvest crops
MEMO | May 9, 2015
Bothaina Al-Najjar, 42, is fearful and cautious while harvesting the wheat and barley on her farm. She can hear the Israeli tanks roaring just a couple of hundred metres away from the Gaza Strip city of Kuza’a. On Friday, Israeli snipers positioned on the Gaza border in the north of the besieged territory shot a Palestinian farmer, causing him serious injuries.
This is an almost daily experience, she told Anadolu reporter Hani Al-Shaer. Israeli tanks could be seen from time to time aiming their barrels towards them during the interview. They also felt that they were in the cross-hairs of Israeli snipers.
Wearing her traditional dark dress and almost hidden by the wheat crop, she said, “I come to my farm in the early morning and start working very fast in case I am targeted by the Israeli forces.” She does not know why the Israelis target the Palestinians in their land. “We are civilians and they know very well that we pose no danger to them.” Al-Najjar added that she and her family have been there for decades.
Nearby, the Anadolu journalist spotted a 70-year old man who was, along with his wife and sister, harvesting their barley crop. Mahmoud Qdeeh had arrived on his farm at 9:30am. When Al-Shaer approached to speak to him, gunfire could be heard, fired from the Israeli side of the border.
Qdeeh ignored the shots, but his sister insisted that he should leave. They collected what they had harvested, packed it onto a donkey cart and fled.
Recalling her youth, Al-Najjar told the journalist that at harvest time the farmers used to prepare big meals and invite their neighbours to eat. “But, after 2000, the Israeli occupation razed hundreds of acres of Palestinian farmland and made our lives hell.”
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Comment by steve2 | May 10, 2015 |
It’s very good land, you see. The Zionists covet it, only of course they don’t want it inhabited by a lot of grunting subhuman goyim.
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Comment by traducteur | May 10, 2015 |
Reblogged this on LIBYA AGAINST SUPER POWER MEDIA.
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Comment by alfatah69 | May 11, 2015 |
the yids are in protect mode
if not for yids protecting
who knows what might befall the poor palestinians:
wild goats, pecking chickens, falling olives, even hungry mosquitoes.
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Comment by 5 dancing shlomos | May 11, 2015 |