AOn a slope, on gravel and next to the skeletons of houses that were no longer finished, the Foreign Minister stands and listens to the suffering of the Palestinian farmer Schreiteh. A few hundred meters further you can see the barracks of Israeli settlers nestled against the next mountain. Annalena Baerbock drove to a Palestinian village in the West Bank. Schreiteh is seventy years old, he has lived here his whole life, he grows lemons and figs.
He was happy, he says, until the settlers came more than twenty years ago. They moved closer and closer to their houses and he suffered more and more from them. Since October 7th it has been even worse. The roads were closed and now he can no longer access his land; he has been driven out of his house. “That is the truth,” he says, and that it is the land of his fathers and great-grandfathers. Don't allow it to be taken away from them. “No matter what it costs.”
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