“This is what they have been doing for a month, a group of settlers, several times a week. Yesterday (July 26) they came again,” Alyan says. “I have a cistern from which I drink. The settler routinely undresses and climbs into the cistern in order to swim in it.
“If I gave you a glass of water, and put a finger in it before, would you drink it?” Alyan asks. “My guess is no. So now imagine what I feel. It’s repulsive. It drives me crazy. I’m helpless.”
Read more here about the settler take over of the UNESCO World Heritage site of Battir near Bethlehem.
‘I Want Battir to Go to Hell’: Israeli Settlers Invade Palestinian World Heritage Site
Sixty-year-old Mariam Bader waters her crop on the ancient terraces of the Palestinian West Bank village of Battir, a UNESCO World Heritage Site., Hadas Parush/Flash90