Ecumenical Accompanier in Yanoun
7 April 2010
YANOUN: In late March, two young Palestinian men were killed as they worked in the fields below the Bracha settlement, near the West Bank city of Nablus. The circumstances of the killing were unclear, but we learnt that the young men, Salah Kamal Quawriq, 18, and Muhammad Faysal Quawriq, 19, had almost certainly been killed by Israeli settlers, possibly a small self styled settler militia. Certainly the young Awarta men were unarmed and had only their agricultural tools and water bottles.
On March 30th, Palestinian Land Day, we attended a commemoration event for the young men, in Awarta. Men lined the village streets as we arrived. We were joined in the town hall by a small group of women, including some from the ambulance team who had attended the incident. We spoke to Nyalla, whose husband and brother had been killed only 6 months previously in an incident with the Israeli army.
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