On Sunday, July 28, Israeli settlers
severely burned land belonging to Hani Abu Haikel and his family in
Hebron. Occupation soldiers, though at first trying to help stop the
fire, ended up blocking the road so that Palestinian firefighters were
delayed in reaching the scene. Several very old olive trees were
destroyed in the fire which swept over immense swathes of land very
quickly. In the video below, Hani Abu Haikel speaks about the incident
and how Israeli settlers, soldiers and police work together to pressure
Palestinian families to leave the Israeli-controlled H2 district of
occupied Hebron.
Flames tear through one of Abu Haikel’s oldest olive trees (Photo by Christian Peacemaker Teams)
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