APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Nablus, 04 February 2022. Israeli soldiers prevent Palestinians, Israeli activists and members of Knesset plant olive trees near outpost of Givat Ronen in Burin village, near the West Bank city of Nablus.
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: APAwire CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Nablus, 04 February 2022. Israeli soldiers prevent Palestinians, Israeli activists and members of Knesset plant olive trees near outpost of Givat Ronen in Burin village, near the West Bank city of Nablus. STORYLINE: Two weeks after the attack by masked Jewish settlers on activists planting olive trees in Burin, Rabbis for Human Rights Friday returned to the Nablus-district town for olive tree planting. Hundreds of Israeli activists, including from Rabbis for Human Rights (RHR), took part in the olive-tree-planting event in solidarity with the villagers of Burin. Israeli forces blocked all roads leading to the northern West Bank town to obstruct the arrival of solidarity activists and ambulances to the area, that will see an anti-colonial-settlement protest this afternoon, forcing them to enter on foot. RHR issued a press statement pledging that its volunteers would continue to plant trees and stand in solidarity with the villagers, while stressing that settler violence will not intimidate them. On Friday, January 21, a group of masked settlers from a nearby colonial settlement arrived to an olive grove and physically attacked RHR volunteers working with the villagers, inflicting fractures and cuts across the bodies of eight of them. The assailants set fire to a volunteer’s vehicle and smashed the windshields of another’s. “Masked men, with no fear of God, attacked with clubs and stones, our volunteers, some of them over 80 years old, thinking that they can impose their vision of Jewish supremacy over the land, from which Palestinian farmers must sustain themselves while living under impossible circumstances,” RHR Executive Director Avi Dabush commented on the January 21 attack. He slammed the Israeli government for failing to pr
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