Pauline didn’t expect the situation to be like that “it’s declining so fast.” Leaving Pau for the West Bank in early October, this 31-year-old farm worker (the person named did not want to be named) wanted to get involved “physically” with Palestinians for the traditional olive harvest, which is important for family incomes, but is increasingly threatened by Israeli settler attacks. However, ten days after his arrival in the occupied territories, his journey came to an abrupt end.
On October 16, the young woman was among 32 foreign volunteers in the “Zeitoun 2025” campaign − (zeitoun means “olive”, in Arabic) led by several Palestinian agricultural organizations and from various countries − captured near Huwara, in the north of the Palestinian territory. Some of them will be held in Givon prison before being deported. Among them, about ten people, from Germany, England, Ireland and France, today denounced it World A “intimidation strategy” by Israel, which they say is aimed at distancing outside perspectives on settler violence in the Palestinian territories, violence deemed unprecedented this year.
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