TULKARM, November 14, 2024 (WAFA) – Colonists attacked farmers on Thursday morning while they were picking olives on their lands in the village of Shofa, southeast of Tulkarm.
Farmer Tahseen Hamed told WAFA that a group of colonists from the Avnei Hefetz colony, built on the village's lands, and the pastoral outpost built to the west of it, under the protection of the occupation forces, attacked the farmers at gunpoint and forced them to leave their lands.
He added that the colonists fired live ammunition to terrorize the farmers, while chasing them from area to area, under the pretext that this land is theirs, and not the Palestinians', and threatened them not to return again, pointing out that these lands were planted with ancient olive trees before the occupation's presence on this land.
It is noteworthy that the farmers in Shofa are subjected to almost daily harassment by colonists who attack them while they are picking olives, destroy their agricultural tools, and seize them, in an attempt to displace them from their lands.
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