Saturday, March 26, 2011

Settlers squat on Church-owned land, demand farmers leave

24 March 2011 15:44 Israeli settlers have set up a tent next to a Palestinian family’s camp in the Jordan Valley and demanded that the family leave. The settlers arrived in ‘Ein Al Hilweh in the north of the Jordan Valley at 11pm on Monday. They carried guns and threatened the family, then set up a tent with generators and large Israeli flags, a few metres from the Daraghmeh family’s tent. Nabil Daraghmeh, who lives with his wife and four children on land he legally rents from the Catholic Patriarchate, told EAPPI that the police then came and told him to demolish his family’s tent or he would be arrested. He said he has lived and grazed his cattle here for around 15 years. "Neither the kids nor the adults can sleep," Nabil said. “We cannot sleep, and my children cannot go to school. They are very scared."
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