Gaza Gazette
West Bank

Settler herds graze in Palestinian wheat fields across the West Bank

Farmers say the harvest calendar is no longer theirs to set, Mondoweiss reports.

صورة أرشيفية من West Bank
Archive photo — shows the place, not the eventPhoto Justin McIntosh · licence CC BY 2.0 · source

Palestinian farmers in the West Bank say settler-owned cattle now graze freely in their wheat fields, in reporting published by Mondoweiss.

Farmers described timing the harvest for generations by the rains and the stars, and said that timing is now dictated by when herds enter the fields.

The reporting links the grazing to the earlier displacement of Bedouin herding communities from the same areas.