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Related: About this forumPalestinian Olive Grove Attacked By Jewish Settlers For 2nd Time In Days
AFP , Saturday 13 Oct 2012
Dozens of olive trees were set ablaze in a Palestinian village early on Saturday, in an attack that villagers and Palestinian security officials blamed on Jewish settlers.
Residents of Qaryut village, 15 kilometres (nine miles) south of the West Bank city of Nablus, said that the fires had been set at several different spots simultaneously and security officials said the evidence pointed to an arson attack by residents of the neighbouring settlement of Eli.
Seventy of the village's olive trees were cut down in the early hours of Wednesday, the first day of the olive harvest, a period when Jewish settlers have in the past raided Palestinian farmers and their crops.
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geckosfeet
(9,644 posts)Mosby
(16,168 posts)I ask because generally speaking Jewish settlers would not do this on Shabbat.
Strange priorities I know.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)They have some residents who are not especially religious and thus may have been responsible for this criminal act.
Edit to Add: That's not to say that religious folks don't sometimes violate the Sabbath to do this sort of thing as well.
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)Olive trees take a while to mature and the families would move away without income.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)despite insinuation that if Israel doesn't report it -it didn't happen
oberliner
(58,724 posts)The AFP article was widely reprinted internationally (as are most AFP articles).
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)I suppose it was one of those "just sayin is all" type comments as I said it was an insinuation