Residents of West Bank’s Last Christian Village ‘Living in Fear’
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Residents of Taybeh, the last fully Christian village in the West Bank, have been unable to harvest olives from most of their fields for the fourth consecutive year. The village has been declared a "closed military zone" by the Israeli army. Palestinian Christian activist Ihab Hassan tells Vatican News that residents live in fear while Israeli settlers continue to move freely in the area.
Even more raids into the olive groves of the Christian village. I pick more and more difficult. So families end up buying oil that they can no longer produce. The olive tree is family economy, inherited tradition and daily bond with the land.The article West Bank: new alarm of the parish priest of Taybeh comes from RomeSette.
Holy Land: Christian village faces fourth threatened olive harvest - Dining and Cooking
Human rights campaigners on visit to Taybeh before such visits were banned Fr Bashar Fawadleh, Parish Priest of the Latin Patriarchate in Taybeh, the last fully Christian village in the West Bank, writes: As the olive harvest begins, the same fears are returning to homes across Taybeh. What is happening on the ground suggests that [...]
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