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(1,631 posts)Palestinian olive farmer Eid cuts a despondent figure as he sits in his living room in his home at the edge of the West Bank village of Burin, head bowed, wondering how he will pay the bills and support his family.
The reason for his dark mood when The Times of Israel visited him last Thursday was the latest in a series of blows he has suffered to his ability to earn a livelihood from his land: Fires, apparently started deliberately, had swept through olive groves belonging to him and others on land around Burin last Wednesday, damaging or destroying hundreds of trees.
Eid estimates that some 300 of his 900 olive trees were destroyed, although he has not been able to reach his land to check the extent of the damage, due to his fear of attack by extremist settlers and IDF restrictions on access.
Footage taken from the morning of the fires by a field operative of the Yesh Din organization, which tracks settler violence, showed five masked individuals, one of whom was carrying a chainsaw, leaving the olive groves as small fires burned among the trees.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/smoke-point-a-palestinian-olive-farmer-despairs-after-hundreds-of-trees-set-ablaze/