BBC Witnesses Migrants Attack to the Palestinian Farm on the West Bank

Among the broken remains of the olive trees of Brahim Khamael, on the occupied western shore, we saw how the men in masks are approaching.

A dozen settlers who are being charged from the illegal outpost over their farm and through the field to us, moving quickly and carrying large sticks.

Sudden and unlawful attack.

This week, Brahim showed us trees that were hacked apart from staying out of the outpost.

His family grew olives here on the ground near Turkus Ay, throughout the generation, which makes it the goal for extremist settlers, who believe that the murder of Palestinian trees and animals will also kill the idea of a Palestinian state, forcing such residents as Brahim on their land.

“Fear is natural,” Brahim told me, looking at the ridge, where the tarpaulin clapped on the post -post -settlers in front of several loafs and makeshift houses. “But there is something stronger than the fear that makes me stay here – the smell of my ancestors and the affection that dates from hundreds of years – even when I cry with my blood.”

When men run to us in the masks, we reach back to the road and go to a safe distance.

In a matter of minutes, some Brahim neighbors from the surrounding farms and villages gather with catapult and stones to withstand the attackers.

The vegetation near the road is set on fire, and its smoke signals the place of confrontation when the migrants on the four -speed bike chase the emergency crew of volunteers, trying to get to the peasant house in the middle of the field.

Now this is a familiar routine. Palestinians living in these villages south of Nablus say that there are attacks and confrontations on their lands weekly, and that settlers use similar tactics to capture land, field on field mode.

But the speed and spread of this attack is exciting.

For just over an hour, dozens of settlers unfolded around the hills. We watched they invaded the isolated building and methodically set fire to vehicles and houses.

The shepherds on the farthest ridge jumped out flocks when the slope of the hills behind them flared flames, the smoke blew up from several places.

By then, the Palestinians who had arrived from all over the area to help neighbors found the main road blocked by the Israeli army when the destruction continued.

One Palestinian was reportedly beaten by migrants, and later the army told us that both sides threw stones at each other, and that the Palestinians burned tires. It states that four Israeli civilians received treatment at the scene.

Among the crowd waiting for the army checkpoint, we found that the reef said Hamal, her crazy gestures gave way to a warm smile and hugs when we talked to her.

The reef told us that her husband was trapped in their peasant house near the Brahim olive farm and surrounded by settlers, but the army would not allow her to pass.

“Every day the settlers do it to us – they attack us, cut down olive trees and burn farms,” she said. “It’s not life. No one can stop them. We have nothing to resist them. They have a weapon, we have nothing.”

Later, we learned that the settlers set fire to some of their property, and the reef husband remained with cuts to the face and legs after being hit by rocks.

The Israeli organization “Mir”, which monitors the distribution of settlements on the western shore, says the number of remains – and the aggression of settlers – multiplied after Hamas attacks on Israel in October 2023 and the war that followed.

Since the beginning of last year, as they say, about 100 outputs appeared on the western shore. It has also been found that over the past few years hundreds of square kilometers of land have been taken over using the same violent painting – encouraging, as they say, through state support and lack of proper Israeli law enforcement.

Last week, the Israeli Finance Minister, Baselya Smatrich, announced the creation of thousands of new residential premises in a large block of the settlement on the Western Bank, saying that he would “bury the idea of a Palestinian state”.

Between August 5-11, the UN Humanitarian Affairs Office recorded at least 27 attacks on the Palestinians, which led to victims, damage to property, or both in two dozen different communities. These attacks, as they said, led to the movement of 18 households.

We could not talk to any of the settlers who participated in the attack we witnessed. The council of local settlers told us that there are elements on both sides that seek provocations he greatly condemned.

Brahim told us that he had filed two separate complaints about the attacks on his land, but little Palestinians here believe in Israel’s justice or security forces, saying that they defend only settlers.

One of the emergency crews that came to the rescue during the Saturday clashes told me that the Israeli army prevented them from reaching the stage.

“We tried to save the young people when the army came, signing us and ordered us to leave here,” Yahja al-Hatib said.

“We were volunteers in our vests. We are not here to attack and harm the settlers. We want to put fires and treat the victims. But they (army) stop us and stand on our way.”

The tensions between the locals and the displaced ones are complicated by the increasing control of the Israeli forces across the western coast, which is evacuated and widespread demolition for refugee camps on the northern western shore.

From January to June this year, the UN revealed that 149 Palestinians were killed by Israeli settlers or soldiers on the occupied West Bank. Nine Israelis were killed by Palestinians.

A few hours after the collisions, which broke out around the Brahim farm on Saturday, another Palestinian case was added to this gloomy count.

The eighteen-year-old Hamdan Abu Elai was shot dead by Israeli troops in the village of Al-Mahiyir, several miles from the Brahim field.

His mother told us that he was going to see the fires illuminated by settlers nearby. “I raised him for 18 years and he left a minute later,” she said.

We asked in the Israeli army what happened. It states that the “terrorists” threw cocktails and cocktails of Molotov into troops in the village, and that the soldiers “replied to fire to lift the threat”.

Hundreds were crowded with Hamdan’s house for his funeral on Sunday when his body was carried out to make his mother say goodbye.

His father, Amen Abu Elai, raging to friends and family, said he refused to show his tears to Israel.

“They thought that when they killed our son, we would leave,” he said. “I won’t scream or say, why did he go? “I’m not sad that he passed.

The local mosque had a greeting hero for Hamdan’s body when it was held for a funeral prayer – the huge Palestinian flags that hung next to Fathah and Hamas from the “Funds and Windows”; Crowds lining the Bira’s way.

In the language of this conflict, every birth and every funeral only enhances the land.

Additional reporting by Morgan Hichalt Medardo