Harvesting post-attack in Azmut

On Saturday, during a settler convention at the Elon Moreh settlement that overlooks Azmut and a few other Palestinian villages, about 25 settlers came down the hill to the groves and threw rocks at families and internationals who were harvesting. I was not there, but feel free to read the report from folks who were (and see the photo of soliders standing by and doing nothing while settlers throw rocks).

I spent the next 2 days harvesting in that village. The DCO was called after the attack and granted the families access and protection to their land for the next week. The villagers are still shaken by it, and hurriedly trying to finish the harvest before the official coordination ends.

Our first task was to pick up the previous day's work from the mud, which had been dumped out by the settlers. It felt infuriating to have to re-pick olives for this reason.


Children of Azmut pick olives from the mud that were dumped by settlers.


One of the families I worked with, picking olives on dangerous land, in view of the settlement.


After the first day of "coordination" post-attack, women of Azmut walk home after a peaceful day of work.