(pic: maan images - farmers near Hebron being prevented from working on their land by Israeli troops)
HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Israeli soldiers on Thursday prevented Palestinian farmers from working on their land near Hebron in the southern West Bank, rights activists said.Israeli soldiers, accompanied by dogs, forced farmers from Beit Ummar to leave their fields near the illegal Bat Ayin settlement, where they were harvesting vine leaves and pears, Palestinian Center for Human Rights official Hesham Sharabati said.
In the same area on Thursday afternoon, Israeli soldiers stopped Mohammad Da'dush, 85, from spraying pesticides on his crops and seized his pump, Sharabati said. more
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