Learn about the history of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, equality and justice by exploring major events in the history of their oppression on this day of the year.
28 May
JEWISH SETTLERS POISONING PALESTINIAN LAND AND LIVESTOCK
On this day in 2018, at least ten sheep belonging to a Palestinian farmer in Salem town, east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, died after Jewish settlers poisoned a plot of grazing land. Settlers from the settlement of Elon Moreh, who own cattle and covet Palestinian agricultural lands, already threatened local shepherds that they would poison their sheep if they were seen in the area. Amnesty has called on Israel to investigate the deliberate contamination of Palestinian farmland by Jewish settlers. There will be no investigation by Israeli authorities who work hand in glove with the settlers.
المستوطنين الصهاينة يسمموا الأرض والمواشي الفلسطينية
28 مايو
في مثل هذا اليوم من عام 2018 ، نَفَقَ ما لا يقل عن عشرة أغنام تعود لمزارع فلسطيني في بلدة سالم شرق نابلس بالضفة الغربية المحتلة بعد أن سمم مستوطنون قطعة أرض للرعي. قام مستوطنون من مستوطنة إيلون موريه ، الذين يمتلكون ماشية ويطمعون بأراضي زراعية فلسطينية ، بتهديد الرعاة المحليين بأنهم سوف يسممون أغنامهم إذا شوهدوا في المنطقة. ودعت منظمة العفو إسرائيل إلى التحقيق في التلويث المتعمد للأراضي الزراعية الفلسطينية من قبل المستوطنين اليهود. لن يكون هناك تحقيق من قبل السلطات الإسرائيلية التي تعمل يدا بيد مع المستوطنين.
Full report:
At least 10 sheep belonging to a Palestinian farmer in Salem town, east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, reportedly died on Monday after Jewish settlers poisoned a plot of grazing land.
Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that these sheep belonged to farmer Mahyoub Ashtiya, who was grazing his sheep on Sunday on land a few meters away from the town, particularly near the military watchtower or the bypass in the area.
At first, the sources explained, that three sheep died directly and then seven others followed, while there are five more are in critical condition, adding that the farmer incurred losses amounting to over 3,000 Jordanian dinars.
Following the incident, tests conducted by a veterinarian and the competent authorities affirmed that the sheep were exposed to poisoning. Eyewitnesses had also reported seeing a car boarded by a horde of settlers in the same area a few days ago, believing that they could have poisoned the pasture.
Settlers from the illegal settlement of Elon Moreh, who also have cattle and take them to Palestinian agricultural lands for grazing, already threatened local shepherds that they would poison their sheep if they were seen in the area.
In an effort to expel the villagers, settlers recently scattered the fields with poison to kill sheep grazing there. They boiled barley seeds in anti-coagulant rat poison designed to spread through the body and cause excessive internal bleeding. According to Amnesty International, this particular poison is illegal in Israel except for government use.
The settlers know that the village depends on its animals for food and this is one more attempt to starve them out. Dozens of sheep are already dead or dying along with a lot of other wildlife in the area. Shortly after I arrived, I saw a motionless black snake glittering in the sun, presumably killed by the poison. The irresponsible and ecologically disastrous nature of the settlers' action is testimony to their ignorance of the fragility of the land they claim the claim is theirs.
Witness in Palestine: A Jewish Woman in the Occupied Territories, Anna Baltzer
Amnesty: West Bank farms poisoned near the West Bank village of Tuwani.
Amnesty International has called on Israel to investigate the deliberate contamination of Palestinian farmland - allegedly by Jewish settlers. The human rights group said that toxic chemicals had been spread on fields in the Hebron region of the West Bank. Farm animals had died and farmers had been forced to quarantine their flocks, the organisation said. It also demanded that Israel put an end to "increasingly frequent" attacks on Palestinians by West Bank settlers. "These poisoning incidents appear to be part of a deliberate attack on the livelihood of Palestinian farmers in the West Bank," said Kate Allen of Amnesty International UK.
A Palestinian Farmer Finds Dead Lambs in His Well. He Knows Who's to Blame
The carcasses of some 10 sheep and lambs were dumped into Ibrahim Salah’s well. The poisoning of its water is only one instance of what the people of his village endure at the hands of settlers from nearby Havat Gilad.
HEBRON, West Bank - Israeli police said they were investigating accusations that