TURMUS AYYA: Afaf Abu Alia had woken early on October 19 to join her grandchildren picking olives near the West Bank village of Turmus Ayya, when she heard a woman scream “settlers.”
Masked men burst out of the trees, one of whom hit 55-year-old Abu Alia on the head with a club, according to her account and a video verified by Reuters showing the attack.
While mediators try to bolster a fragile ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, intensified Israeli settler violence targetting the Palestinian olive harvest in the occupied West Bank has continued unabated, according to Palestinian and UN officials.
“I fell to the ground and I couldn’t feel anything,” Abu Alia told Reuters on Wednesday, her right eye bruised from the assault.
SYMBOL OF PALESTINIAN CONNECTION TO THE LAND
