Each year reports come in of armed Jewish settlers harming Palestinian olive pickers and this year is no exception. (For more examples of Jewish Settler violence which goes unreported in the media, see the October weblog ... http://www.irna.com/en/head/011011172005.ehe.shtml

- ewish terrorists open fire on Palestinian olive harvesters

Al-Khalil -- Paramilitary Jewish settlers, many of them immigrants from the US, on Thursday opened fire on Palestinian olive harvesters in several localities in the northern West Bank, injuring several people and terrorizing the poor peasants. The English-speaking terrorists also reportedly chased other Palestinians, telling them that "God gave us this land and you should leave or you will be killed."

Palestinian sources in Nablus said some of the bearded settlers set fire on Palestinian olive orchards in full view of Israeli occupation soldiers.

Last year this time, Jewish settlers committed some of the most gruesome crimes against Palestinian olive harvesters. For example, two Jewish settlers armed with automatic rifles shot and killed Farid Nasasra at the village of Beit Furik, near Nablus, in front of his wife and kids.

All in all, more than 50 Palestinian civilians, like Nasasra, were murdered by Jewish settlers in one year. The victims include people as young as two-month old babies and elderly peasants aged more than 80 years. According to the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem, none of the perpetrators has been prosecuted for the murders. < BR>