The International Solidarity Movement office in Nablus received a phone call from a nearby village named Madama today about a new roadblock in their town, and we went out to the village to investigate.
Madama is a small farming village of about 1,800 people, with two schools and two mosques. Most of the traditional village land has been confiscated by Israel for the Yitzhar settlement. Part of the Apartheid Wall and a settler-only road also cuts through the village land.
According to the villagers we spoke with today, settlers attack the town residents two or three times a week, and the Israeli Occupation Forces raid homes daily, ostensibly to look for "terrorists".
Last week, an Army bulldozer drove through town and dumped concrete blocks and rocks on a road that the villagers use to access their farmland.
"If I can't get my tractor though to my olive trees, I cannot work, my trees will die, and I will not be able to make a living," Muhammed Abu Massam said, a local farmer.
I'm pretty sure they did this because of the Rabbi whom was killed last week.
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