Jewish settlers entered a Christian man’s olive grove and forced him out using a fence. As we read in the Washington Post:

From a vantage point an hour north of Jerusalem’s Old City, Suleiman Khouriyeh pointed in every direction to explain how the residents of Taybeh — a village that, according to the Gospels, once gave refuge to Jesus and his disciples — now cannot find relief themselves.

Khouriyeh, the mayor, was blocked from harvesting his four-acre olive grove after settlers closed in from the west, seized his land and built a fence. Across the valley, a local businessman, Hanna Massis, was building a multistory hotel but halted construction because of settler attacks.

Bashir Marouf, the owner of a house on a street where settlers often arrive at night to set up roadblocks to disrupt the local traffic, had long fled.

In another incident, settlers pushed employees at a Christian owned factory so they can use the property to graze their cattle. As the Washington Post reports:

To the south was Roland Bassir’s cement factory, its office windows shattered and its machinery destroyed from a recent attack. Initially, in late 2023, settlers set up a single tent on a nearby hilltop. One tent became a few trailers, then a small farm.

Over the next two years, settlers from the outpost began taking their cattle to graze inside the factory premises and forcing Bassir’s workers to leave in the middle of the day, according to Bassir and videos his employees recorded.

They lofted an Israeli flag, vandalized cars and smashed equipment. During two attacks, on Sept. 14 and March 14, they shot in the air with rifles, Bassir said. Struggling to keep the factory running, Bassir has laid off nearly all of his 45 employees.

After sinking more than $100,000 into the business, Bassir was ready to abandon it, he said. He has already applied for a U.S. visa. “If I get it, I will leave tomorrow,” Bassir said. “There is no future. Every day I think it might be my last day here, because I might be killed.”