Were there cases of settlers uprooting olive trees or burning fields? It happened around Nablus. There’s a field in Havat Gil’ad, inside the settlement, right beneath it. It’s a field that supposedly belongs to Palestinians. One day, they (the settlers) got fed up, so they burned the field.

And what did you do? We were there. We had to prevent them from throwing stones at each other. We felt like contractors, just standing there. Now, the funny thing was that we’d talk to them rationally and leave, and the minute we left, they’d come back. It’s not that they… It was right in the middle of the olive harvest. Most of the olive harvests around Nablus went really well. No clashes, lots of military security, the army let them harvest a different grove each time. They did that, so when the time came for the Palestinians to harvest that grove near Havat Gilad, they had nothing to harvest.

Why? You could say that some of the trees in Havat Gilad – all their olives had been picked already, or the trees had been burned.

You mean that when the time came for the Palestinians who owned the field near Havat Gilad to harvest their olives… They had nothing left to harvest.