Haaretz – Adapted

The settlers' cows graze in abundance in the Palestinian villages of Al-Mutila and Jalbun in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. The grazing tours of the cows in Jalbun reach the Palestinian occupied lands in the area between the Apartheid Wall and the occupied territories of 1948. Also, no one asked permission from the Palestinians to graze the herds of cows on their lands, which they and their parents used for grazing and farming for decades, and which have been closed to them to graze their cows on since 2000.

The heads of Palestinian local councils told the newspaper that after the construction of the Apartheid Wall, which resulted in a marked reduction in the Palestinians' grazing fields, they were compelled to sell most of their cows. According to Ibrahim Abu Al-Rub, the head of the Jalbun Council, “People keep a cow or two here for nostalgia.”

Because herds of Israeli cows continued to overrun village properties in 2013, the Red Crescent assisted in the construction of short fences around private lands but not around public areas, with the intention of preventing trespassing. However, every time someone cuts the barbed wire. Moreover, in the south of the occupied West Bank, in the seam zone, Israeli cows graze on the lands of the Idhna town, whose residents can only graze with permission from the occupation, which they rarely obtain.

Palestinians' grazing would be drastically decreased in favor of Israeli grazing, even on Palestinian Authority-controlled West Bank territories.