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Podcast: Beyond the Headlines
Episode: Violence, gunfire and annexation: Palestinian olive farmers under attack
Description: Palestine’s olive harvest season started this month, and quickly became the target of Israeli settler attacks.
A viral video this week showed a mob violently chasing Palestinian olive pickers in an occupied West Bank town north-east of Ramallah. A masked man is seen striking a woman with a club in the field, knocking her to the ground. In another town, farmers trying to harvest their groves were met by gunfire from Israeli soldiers, who are known to offer protection to settlers.
These incidents are not new but the UN has documented a 13 per cent in...