The villagers, especially the children, are afraid to go out of their homes. I can no longer follow the Muslim tradition of traveling to Jerusalem to worship; the Israelis will not give me a permit.
It would take 60 days to harvest our 10,000 olive trees and the military gives us only one day each week for harvest, or sometimes they allow two. We can not finish. How can we live?
Who can think of guns in a beautiful place like this?
But God has sent you [international supporters] to us, I thank God for you.
—Mr. Beni-Jabber, village patriarch
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