Thread by @Talsa13

Tl;dr: I was shot at today
Today I lost my innocence. For the first time in my life, someone shot at me, and I was afraid I wouldn’t come back home. He wasn’t a Hezbollah or Hamas operative, but a settler who didn’t want me documenting them destroying a Palestinian's farmland

Yesterday, I came to the village of At-Tuwani in the South Hebron Hills to stand in solidarity with my Palestinian friends. Settlers wearing army uniforms have been taking advantage of the war - while all eyes on Gaza - to take over more land that doesn’t belong to them.

They’re cynically exploiting the situation to advance their own political goals – during a moment when thousands, including my own brothers, have been called up for duty, and while I’m still mourning a friend who was murdered.

This incident started when a settler came with a bulldozer to destroy a garden on the private farmland of a family I know in At-Tuwani. It wasn’t their first time trying to destroy this garden. It pained me to see how he tore apart this beautiful garden I’ve visited many times

Settlers are exploiting the war in order to do whatever they want. Armed and wearing uniforms, they are becoming the law since there’s no one who will stop them. It scares and sorrows me that the man who shot at us will in all likelihood not be arrested by the police.

I'm afraid. Afraid for myself and even more so for the lives of Palestinians who are having to endure this and worse.
But in times like these I cannot allow myself to look away from what is happening in the West Bank. Don’t close your eyes - lives depend on it.