while working in his olive grove, 88-year-old Muhammad Kashu'a, a resident of `Elar, heard somebody calling to him. "I turned around and saw a group of about twelve soldiers," he told B'Tselem. One of the soldiers asked Kashu'a what he was doing there. "I told him that I was working my land, removing the weeds.... He told me that it was not olive-picking season, and again asked why I was there. I replied that it was my land and that I had come to cultivate it. He said that I was lying, and that I had come to give food to people on Israel's wanted list. I told him that I did not know any wanted persons, that I was ninety years old, and that I don't know anybody [who is wanted]...
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