01 June 2011 | International Solidarity Movement On Monday 30 May at 4pm, the villagers of Madama reported that a fire had been started by seven to eight settlers in one of the village’s wheat fields. The field was close ...
Read More »Israeli bulldozers destroy farmer’s land in Al Ma’asara
30 May 2011 | International Solidarity Movement Yesterday private Israeli bulldozers arrived in the village of Al Ma’sara in the West Bank and destroyed a section of farm land belonging to the Brijia family, uprooting five grape trees and an ...
Read More »Activists in Hebron accompany farmer suffering from settler attacks
15 May 2011 | International Solidarity Movement This past week in the outskirts of Hebron, ISM activists have been helping farmer Abd al Kareim Al Jabari to work his land after him and his family have suffered continuous harrasment from ...
Read More »Do you see that land? That land is mine and I cannot go there
14 May 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza On May 8, 9, and 10th the farmers of Khuza’a harvested their wheat. Khuza’a is a village near the Israeli border in the southern Gaza Strip. For three days they visited the ...
Read More »Today the farmers of Beit Hanoun harvested their wheat
26 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Today the farmers of Beit Hanoun harvested their wheat. This would be unexceptional news in any other part of the world, but in Palestine things aren’t always so simple. Beit Hanoun is ...
Read More »We left Gaza city early …
13 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza We left Gaza city early; we were going to Faraheen, a small village near the buffer zone to help farmers plant peppers. Israel has declared a 300 meter “buffer zone” along the ...
Read More »Tractors confiscated in Al Jiftlik, Jordan Valley
29 March 2011 | Lydia At approximately 7 am this morning the Israeli army entered the village of Al Jiftlik. Soldiers went door to door ordering all tractor owners to bring their farming vehicles to the closed military zone between ...
Read More »Villagers harassed by Israeli army whilst trying to farm their land
12 February 2011 | International Solidarity Movement In the village of Jaloud, south of Nablus, around thirty villagers, two internationals, and six Israeli peace activists accompanied farmers to their land to help plant one hundred olive trees. Towards the end ...
Read More »Israeli settlers lay in front of tractors; attempt to prohibit Palestinian agricultural work
23 January 2011 | Operation Dove & Christian Peacemaker Teams At-Tuwani, South Hebron Hills, West Bank – On Saturday, 22nd of January, Palestinian farmers successfully plowed fields in Khoruba valley, despite heavy harassment by settlers from the nearby settlement of ...
Read More »Life and death in the buffer zone
16 January 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Vera Macht Death comes quickly at a place like this. On sunny winter days, when the smell of the night’s rain is still in the air, as if it would have brought some ...
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