RAmallah, 4 Jun. (askanews) – At the wheel of his red tractor, Fatima Abu Naim helps the men of the family to collect wheat on their lands of the Al-Mughayyir village, to the east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
A challenge among the criticisms of the gossips because She, a woman, allowed herself to take her driving license for agricultural machinesand the anxiety continues for the presence of Israeli settlers in a territory where violence against the Palestinians at the hands of colonizers is constantly increasing in recent months.
The life of a woman in occupied the West Bank
Fatima is 32 years old and says that in this arid region, where the settlers prevent the page of the cars, his tractor is essential.
“I have had many criticisms, someone says that I don’t have to work but to be in the kitchen and that women now allow everything even to take the driving license for the tractor, even the women here are wondering why I took it and not my husband but I don’t care, I only consulted my husband and family and they told me I didn’t do anything wrong, this encouraged me,” he explains.
«This land is ours, if we leave the colonists they will take it. We have a house in the city and usually we went in summer but if we go now we will no longer be able to return. We haven’t left the earth for three years because the colonists want to take it, “he adds. «The settler is part of our lives, we wake up and go to bed thinking about him, the first thing in the morning is to see if he arrived with his sheep, I keep the phone in his hand all day because if the neighbors see him warn us immediately. All day we think of the settler, even sleeping we dream of it. It has become an obsession ».
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