Mahmoud Al Nashit launches his ambulance at full speed on the road which climbs towards Deir’Ammar, around fifteen kilometers from Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank. Hurried and worried this June 14. A smell of smoke seeps through the half-open window. “The settlers came back to burn olive trees this morning,” says the paramedic, without slowing down. For the municipality of Al-Ittihad, to which the village is attached, these attacks have become routine. The previous two days, several dozen settlers again targeted farmers in their fields. “While I was caring for three injured people, they looted some of my equipment,” says the rescuer. I was finally able to evacuate seven injured people to the barrier at the exit of the village, where three other ambulances were waiting to take them to the Ramallah hospital. »
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