Besieged by settlers, Palestinians race to harvest wheat early

On the morning of April 25, Aamer and Muhammad Al-Huraini set out to their wheat fields in Wadi Al-Rakhim, a small Palestinian community in Masafer Yatta in the southern West Bank. The wheat was not yet ripe for harvesting, but this was their only chance to save it. 

Daily incursions by Israeli settlers, who descend from nearby outposts and graze their sheep on the privately-owned Palestinian land, had forced the community to harvest over a month early, accompanied…