Only in Palestine...

would you get Israeli Defense Force soldiers, protecting Palestinian children, from Israeli settler-colonists.

I decided to post this link because I actually visited Hirbat Al-Tuwani last summer. It's a tiny rural village, and I mean tiny (around 200 people). We were told about the problems with settler-colonists while there, who are apparently not even Israelis per se, but Jewish immigrants from America and France (although I do realize Israel is a nation of Jewish immigrants).

The saddest thing is that this village is so tiny and relatively isolated, that these people didn't even really care about the rest of Palestine, let alone anywhere else in the world. They just went about their lives, which in most cases meant farming the land. Then one day a settlement sprang up on a nearby hilltop, and now they can't tend their own land (- this was the place where settlers-colonists poisoned the water wells and grazing land -) and their kids can't even get to school safely.