The villagers dismantled their own homes and fled the relentless Israeli settler attacks on them, their children and even their flocks. A distraught Abu Najjeh Kaabneh, the mukhtar or chosen leader of the Ein Samiya community, declared: “We are homeless.” Reaching the ‘killing point’ According to the elder Abu Najjeh, the decision to leave Ein Samiya came after the settler …
The 200 residents of Ein Samiya were forced to leave their land after years of Israeli settler and army violence. Ramallah, occupied West Bank – Years of violent attacks and restrictions by the Israeli army and settlers have forced the roughly 200 residents of Ein Samiya village out of their homes in what rights groups call a “war crime”. “The …