When I was in the West Bank settlers attacked olive pickers, saying they were Hamas agents. IDF soldiers used the same pretext to stop the harvest. One soldier told me picking olives was a “political act.” A thread on things I saw while reporting for The New Yorker:
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Olive groves have become dangerous. I went to one with @thabjouqa where a man had been killed a week earlier. IDF soldiers appeared on a hill and pulled weapons on us. I caught some of it on video. One cocked his rifle right after I turned the camera off. It was terrifying.