Samer Mesoud was working on his farm near Burqa, a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank, when he received a call warning him that a group of Jewish settlers had set the family’s barn on fire.
Mesoud rushed back, only to have his efforts to control the blaze thwarted by Israeli soldiers who had arrived on the scene and fired tear gas at him as he tried to bring water from a nearby tank. “I told them: go ahead and shoot me,” he said, gesturing around the charred building, melted wire fittings to his right and the ashes of wood and straw at his feet. “This was my livelihood. And now this is it.”
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