A view of Ramzi Shamout's fields in the village of Abbasieh (Sour), taken a few weeks ago. |(Credit: Ramzi Shamout)
On the other end of the line, Ramzi Shamout’s voice sounds tired. For this farmer from the Abbasieh area in the Sour district, the evacuation order that the Arabic-language spokesman of the Israeli army issued on Friday morning, accompanied by a map that includes his village, was a heavy blow."We tried as best as we could to keep cultivating our land, but three days ago, one of my Syrian workers was targeted while riding his motorcycle. He was killed and his wife was injured. Since then, the workers are too scared to go to the fields. Today, after this evacuation order, everything is lost," he laments.Adel Yacoub, his neighbor, also lost colleagues in the bombings. "My site manager was killed with his wife during a strike on one of my lands four days ago," he says. "From the Qasmieh Bridge and farther south, you...
On the other end of the line, Ramzi Shamout’s voice sounds tired. For this farmer from the Abbasieh area in the Sour district, the evacuation order that the Arabic-language spokesman of the Israeli army issued on Friday morning, accompanied by a map that includes his village, was a heavy blow."We tried as best as we could to keep cultivating our land, but three days ago, one of my Syrian workers was targeted while riding his motorcycle. He was killed and his wife was injured. Since then, the workers are too scared to go to the fields. Today, after this evacuation order, everything is lost," he laments.Adel Yacoub, his neighbor, also lost colleagues in the bombings. "My site manager was killed with his wife during a strike on one of my lands four days ago," he says. "From the Qasmieh Bridge and farther south,...
