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Wasteland in al Walajeh: Israeli military destruction of farmland

Posted on: September 7, 2011

7 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

On Tuesday September  6th local Palestinians from the village of Al Walajeh gathered with international activists to protest the building of the illegal separation barrier as well as the destruction of ancient olive trees. The demonstrators succeeded in halting the razing of Palestinian land for approximately one hour before soldiers violently broke up the protest arresting one Palestinian and one Israeli activist.

On September 5th bulldozers protected by dozens of soldiers arrived at 4 AM and uprooted 50 olive trees that date back at least 100 years. The bulldozers also destroyed 18 almond trees, … Continue reading


Updated on September 7, 2011
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Harvesting in death zone, with a song

Posted on: October 31, 2009

Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service

30 October 2009

On a quiet October morning, Fida Zaneen, 19, sings a traditional love song as she pulls olives from trees in Beit Hanoun’s border region during the annual olive harvest.

“My grandmother taught me the folk songs. They were popular all over Palestine many decades ago.”

Saber Zaneen, 44, and Khalil Nassir, 45, alternately belt out traditional harvest songs as they, too, strip the limbs of the green and black fruit in the northern Gaza region.

Keeping Palestinian culture alive is one of the mandates of Local Initiative, a Beit Hanoun-based volunteer group comprising many youths … Continue reading


Updated on October 31, 2009
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Popular resistance lives on in Gaza

Posted on: September 19, 2009
Palestinian farmers protest the siege in Gaza

Eva Bartlett | In Gaza

19 September 2009

On 15 September, we join farmers and residents, including a contingent of women, youths and men, in a non-violent walk to the border region east of Beit Hanoun in the north of Gaza, singing and chanting as they march past Israeli army razed fields and destroyed water tanks and cisterns. The march is in the tradition of popular resistance in Palestine, more widely known worldwide in the villages of Bil’in and Ni’lin, but … Continue reading


Updated on September 19, 2009
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East Khouzaa destruction & buffer zone

Posted on: September 19, 2009

ISM Gaza | Farming Under Fire

17 September 2009

Interview with Dr. Qudeh from the “Brilliant Tomorrow For Homes Sons Society” about the destruction of East Khouzaa during the December 2008 – January 2009 Israeli onslaught on Gaza and the attempt of the Israeli occupation forces to establish a “buffer zone” by shooting live ammunition against farmers.

List … Continue reading


Updated on September 19, 2009
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ISM Gaza accompanies Palestinian farmers

Posted on: July 25, 2009

Israel’s Open-Fire Policy: shooting the donkey (as an old woman hides behind it)

Resisting the Zionist Gun – Part 1: Letaemat 07/05/2009

Resisting the Zionist Gun – Part 2: Letaemat 09/05/2009

Harvest in the Automated Kill Zone, Part 1 – Khoza’a 21/05/2009

Harvest in the Automated Kill … Continue reading


Updated on July 25, 2009
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Farmers and ISM Human Rights Workers to repair damaged well

Posted on: July 23, 2009

ISM Gaza | Farming Under Fire

23 July 2009

Thursday 23rd July 2009 at 8am – Farmers from Abassan Jeddida (East of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip)and human rights workers from the International Solidarity movement will be repairing a damaged water well in Palestinian farmland. On Tuesday 21st July, four Israeli tanks and two bulldozers made an incursion into the area, and caused extensive damage. With international accompaniment, the farmer managed to assess the damage to the well on Wednesday.


Updated on July 23, 2009
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Palestinian farmer boy injured by shrapnel

Posted on: July 18, 2009

ISM Gaza | Farming Under Fire

18 July 2009

Interview with a 16 year old Palestinian farmer who got injured by shrapnel, above his eye, on the 15th of July while working about 500 meters from the Green Line between the areas of Abassan Jedida and Al Faraheen, in Gaza Strip.

The interview was taken the next night, after the boy got out of the European Hospital in Khan Younis and returned to his house. Although that day there … Continue reading


Updated on July 18, 2009
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Israeli incursion in Al Faraheen

Posted on: July 1, 2009

ISM Gaza | Farming Under Fire

1 July 2009

Israeli forces have entered the village of Faraheen this morning and are still currently there using bulldozers to destroy farmland. According to local villagers there are now 2 graders, 4 tanks, 2 tanks armored with canons, 2 tractors and 4 bulldozers on the farmland. The army has also ignited a fire…. Continue reading


Updated on July 1, 2009
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Palestinian kids with kites reclaiming land and rights

Posted on: June 26, 2009

ISM Gaza | Farming Under Fire

25 June 2009

ISM Gaza Strip activists participated in a children event/protest organized by the Beit Hanoun Local Initiative, close to the so called “buffer zone” that Israeli occupation forces are trying to impose all along the Green Line. Among the ruble of recently demolished homes, with other children watching from their homes full of bullet holes, the children of Beit Hanoun launched their kites, defying the siege and the buffer zone and reclaiming land and rights. The Israeli occupation forces participated also to the event with their military balloons…. Continue reading


Updated on June 26, 2009
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Rotting in the ‘buffer zone’

Posted on: June 20, 2009

ISM Gaza | Farming Under Fire

18 June 2009

Ahmed Abu Hashish, a Bedouin teenager of 18 years from a rural community in the northern Gaza Strip had been missing for 54 days.

A shepherd then noticed a murder of crows on a patch of land from which there was also a foul stench emanating, but he could not approach close enough to investigate. This patch of land is in what Israel calls the “buffer zone”. A strip of land within “The Strip” which abuts the border with Israel, and in which the Israeli military enforce a no-go decree by shooting, … Continue reading


Updated on June 20, 2009
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