[Diggers350] Violent Israeli Settlers Establish More New Farms, Push Palestinians Off Their Land

Tony Gosling tony at cultureshop.org.uk
Wed Dec 8 19:45:38 GMT 2021 


West Bank Land Grabs: Israeli Settlers Are 
Establishing Farms To Push Palestinians Off Their Land

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Violent Israeli settlers are establishing farms 
to push Palestinians off their land

Israeli settler violence in the West Bank isn’t 
an isolated incident. Rather, nearly every week 
settlers from nearby agricultural outposts 
terrorize the Palestinians of Masafer Yatta as they take over their land.
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Emacs!

Palestinians protest as Israeli forces demolish a 
Palestinian house in in Masafer Yatta near Hebron 
in the Israeli-occupied West Bank November 25, 2020.

On the morning of Nov. 10, Israeli settlers 
erected sheep pens on Palestinian agricultural 
land next to the Masafer Yatta hamlet of 
<https://www.972mag.com/khallet-a-daba-settler-attack/>Khallet 
a-Daba’ in the West Bank. By the evening, the 
Israeli army dismantled the illegal outpost, and 
in response, 
<https://www.instagram.com/p/CWIwc6eI7j0/>the 
settlers rioted against the Khallet a-Daba’ 
community. They threw stones. They shattered car 
windshields. They uprooted olive trees. They set a hut ablaze. They fired guns.

This violence isn’t an isolated incident. Rather, 
nearly every week settlers from nearby 
agricultural outposts are terrorizing the 
Palestinians as they take over their land.

Israeli human rights organization 
<https://www.btselem.org/sites/default/files/publications/202111_state_business_eng.pdf>B’Tselem 
highlighted the attacks originating from settler 
farms in a new report released last week. In it, 
B’Tselem stated 50 outposts have been built in 
the West Bank over the last decade ­ with about 
40 of them used for sheep, goat and cattle herding.

Seemingly unsatisfied with these land-grabs, 
settler ranchers are also actively assaulting 
Palestinians whose land they’ve stolen as 
Palestinian journalist and activist, Basil al-Adraa, described.

“They organize very big attacks against us 
especially on Saturday and on the Jewish 
holidays. They use these holidays to collect tens 
and dozens of settlers. They come armed with 
slingshots, sticks and hammers. At least from May 
until today, seven of these organized attacks 
were committed against my community,” al-Adraa 
said during a 
<https://www.facebook.com/NaamodUK/videos/842557566410967>joint 
Breaking the Silence and Na’amod webinar on settler violence.

According to B’Tselem, from the beginning of 2020 
to the end of September 2021 451 settler attacks 
have occurred against Palestinians and their 
property, with more than half directed at Palestinian farmers.

Emacs!


This figure did not include the Jordan Valley in 
the northern West Bank, an area experiencing 
settler violence daily and something farmer Fawzi 
Daraghmeh is all too familiar with.

“Settlers attack my goats, hitting them in the 
stomach, in the head and in the legs,” Daraghmeh 
said. “They’re always trying to provoke my family 
and me and if any of us say anything, the 
settlers will just call the army and tell them we attacked them.”

Since 2019, Daraghmeh has lost about 250 acres of 
farmland to the Um Zuqa settler farm. The amount 
of grazing land stolen is harder to quantify, he 
said, but estimated losing hundreds of acres to settlers.

We’re talking about a system, which has a lot of 
knowledge and experience. It’s not like someone 
woke up in the morning and decided they wanted to be a cowboy.

Dror Etkes

Calculations done by Israeli land policy 
organization, Kerem Navot, as part of B’Tselem’s 
report, found settler farms in the Jordan Valley, 
Masafer Yatta and other parts of the West Bank 
have taken over nearly 7,000 acres in the last 
five years. However, this number does not include 
the entirety of the West Bank, which Kerem Navot 
founder, Dror Etkes, said the organization is currently measuring.

 From Etkes’ conclusions, the phenomenon of 
settler farms is intentionally entwined with state policy.

“The most important thing [for Israel] right now 
is to get Palestinians out of the larger areas in 
Area C. And in order to do that, you need to 
contract settlers to get these Palestinians out, 
and that’s exactly what these farms are doing,” Etkes said.

As emphasized in B’Tselem’s report, most 
agricultural outposts are built with state 
support in the form of infrastructure, water and farming subsidies.

“Someone tells the military to guard the 
settlements. Someone designated the land to begin 
with and decided where the outpost is going to 
be. So, we’re talking about a system, which has a 
lot of knowledge and experience. It’s not like 
someone woke up in the morning and decided they 
wanted to be a cowboy,” Etkes said.


Settlers as a tool of the state

And while settlers are scoring subsidies, Palestinian farmers are losing money.

Ali Awad, a Palestinian activist from the hamlet 
of Tuba in Masafer Yatta, comes from a family of 
shepherds whose primary source of income has been 
eradicated by encroaching settler farms.

Instead of having their sheep graze on the 
hillside, Ali’s family now purchases bales of hay 
to feed their animals. “We lost our whole 
traditional lifestyle,” Ali said. Even the 
manufactured livestock feed isn’t immune to 
settler attacks. In June, 
<https://www.972mag.com/settler-violence-south-hebron-hills-fire/>settlers 
burned a year’s supply of hay bales Ali’s family bought.

“Settler violence is only part of Israeli 
colonist goals. These people are used as tools ­ 
justified by racist laws ­ for committing ethnic 
cleansing against the Palestinians.”

Ali Awad

Settler expansion has crippled Masafer Yatta’s 
economy. Two-thirds of the families in Tuba have 
left in the last decade. From Ali’s vantage 
point, the purpose of these agricultural outposts is to “evict Palestinians.”

“Settler violence is only part of Israeli 
colonist goals,” Ali said. “These people are used 
as tools ­ justified by racist laws ­ for 
committing ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians.”

With the high price of animal feed and without 
room to graze, Ali’s family is becoming hopeless.

“Every day we think about leaving,” Jaber Awad, 
Ali’s uncle, said. “Walking 100 meters [330 feet] 
out of the home means a settler is standing in front of you and your flock.”

Like the Awad family, Daraghmeh in the Jordan 
Valley feels trapped. “Because of these outposts, 
I feel like I am in jail with my sheep and goats. 
We can’t move. We can’t go anywhere.”
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