Joseph Dana follows up on his report of this morning from Safa in the West Bank:
I just got an email from Ta'ayush activists who went to Safa this afternoon with the Palestinian land owners whose fields were burned and trees uprooted. Soon after they arrived at the farm land, IDF and police showed up. An IDF commander proudly announced that he spotted the fire last night and put it out. The Ta'ayush activists then pleaded with the forces to collect the evidence that the settlers had left behind which included matches and other material to start fires. The IDF and police refused to do so and then declared the area to be a closed military zone basically forcing the activists out of the area.
After getting kicked off the land, they accompanied the land owner to file a complaint at the police station in Gush Etzion. The police said that the complaint could not be filed without sufficient evidence. There was a run around regarding the evidence in Safa ending with the police saying that they will 'look into it'. Ta'ayush is using every possible avenue to contest this legally. There is still nothing in the Israeli press about this event.
