The battle between farmers in West Bank pitting Israel against the US - BBC News

The US has announced sanctions against three more Israeli settlers in the West Bank.

7 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Stuart PhillipsImage caption, Palestinian farmer Fares Samamreh says he and his family left their farm after being attacked by Israeli settlersBy Lucy WilliamsonBBC News, in the southern West BankThe US has announced sanctions against three more Israeli settlers and - for the first time - two farming outposts, as part of new measures by Washington and London to stop the violent displacement of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

Fares Samamreh may not carry a gun, but he has a global superpower defending him. He's still losing the fight.

A Palestinian sheep farmer on the sun-tinged slopes of the South Hebron Hills in the occupied West Bank, his battle with his neighbour, an Israeli settler called Yinon Levy, has drawn both the US and the UK into the dispute.

"Yinon Levy came here three years ago and started bothering me," Fares said, his head wrapped in a piece of white cotton, his eyes narrowed in a permanent squint against the sun.

"Before the war [in Gaza] it was the usual thing; they would come with drones. But a few days after 7 October, it became serious. They all had guns. They started coming to us day and night. I have little kids - some of them are four and five years old."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68568298

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