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When we arrived in the village of Farakheen at 7 this morning about 20 wheat harvesters were already shot at. Shots were fired again just after 8. They worked hard and fast keeping an eye at the perilous border. At 10 they went to their homes planning to return the next day to complete the harvest. This afternoon Israeli tanks and bulldozers entered the Palestinian side and soldiers used flame throwers to burn what was left. Lives of Gazan farmers are unimaginably hard. They risk their loves every time they go to their fields, they work dawn to dusk and more often than not all of that is in vain.
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Tags: buffer zone, destruction of property, farming, Gaza, Israel, live ammunition, occupation, shooting at civilians, siege
