Palestinian hurt in settlers' attack home from hospital

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"Saber Shtaya, a 73-year-old Palestinian farmer who was attacked in his olive orchard in April, returned from an Israeli hospital to his West Bank village of Salem over the weekend.

Shtaya was still having a hard time walking normally, even though he has been undergoing rehabilitation for the past month, his son Rami said."

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"The attack on Shtaya came during settler harassment aimed at keeping Palestinians from working their land, according to Palestinian farmers and Israeli volunteers who are assisting them.

Since an olive orchard was destroyed near Salem in November, Israeli volunteers have arrived every weekend to help the farmers and intervene in clashes with settlers from the nearby Elon Moreh settlement and Skali's Farm outpost.

However, the presence of the volunteers has not always kept the harassment at bay. Sometimes, they said, armed settlers would stand near the orchards "just to generate fear among the farmers."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/722936.html

such a travesty. Armed thugs free to roam the countryside.

The Israeli govt powerless to do anything to stop these attacks. It seems they always have enough rubber bullets, sound bombs, live ammo when it is Palestinians protesting their isolation (and the "legal" seperation from their crops by the annexation wall). They cannot spare one or two pairs of plastic cuffs to prevent this from happening?