On July 31, several Israeli settlers, with military and police support, evicted the Palestinian Kisiya family from their land in Al Mahrour, northwest of Bethlehem. “They had no court order, no eviction order,” Alice Kisiya, 30, told elDiario.es, who has since led the fight to recover the family's land.
There are about four hectares where the Kisiya family has planted fig, olive, lemon and other fruit trees since before 1948, the date of the founding of the State of Israel. From the other side of the valley, the young woman points out farmland taken from Christian families who, like other Palestinians in the region, have been economically dependent on agriculture for generations.