He pointed out one of them on a nearby hill - built, he said, on private Palestinian land, in an area that is supposed to be run by the Palestinian Authority. And the attacks had increased too, he said, sometimes targeting the village itself at night. While we were talking, we saw smoke rising from the village fields. This road past their fields, increasingly overlooked by settler outposts, has become a gauntlet for farmers here, to be run at speed in vehicles without stopping or getting out. Twice when we drove along it, we saw an Israeli settler sitting in the empty fields.