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NABLUS, October 21, 2012 (WAFA) – A number of Jewish settlers Sunday placed a barbered wire fence around 10 dunums of private-owned Palestinian land, preventing its elderly owner from entering it in Qarout village, south of Nablus, according to the land owner.

Sixty six year-old Mohammad Najim told WAFA that he was surprised when he reached his land in the early morning to harvest his olives to find it all fenced by settlers from a nearby settlement.

He added the settlement’s security “warned us from coming near the land, claiming it was for our own protection from settlers’ attacks.”

This is not the first attack by settlers against this land, Najim said: “I have been taking care of this land and fixing what the settlers have done to my trees about 14 years ago, as they cut them down, watching them grow in front of me and now they simply tell me that they are not responsible for what will happen to me if I come near my land.”

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