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Harvesting olives on the Green Line in Gaza

Posted on: October 9, 2008

Film by Fida Qishta. Language editing by ISM Gaza

On the 9th October, members of ISM Gaza supported an action organised by a Palestinian youth group called The Local Initiative.

Olive farmers were accompanied onto their land, situated extremely close to the Green Line, under the shadow of several Israeli watchtowers. Palestinian and international activists worked alongside local farmers to bring in the 2008 harvest. Farmers in this area have been denied access to their land by Israeli occupation forces and vast numbers of their trees (150,000 – 200,000) have … Continue reading


Updated on June 4, 2009
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The “Only Democracy in the Middle East”

Posted on: May 20, 2006

By Raad

In the last week we had two decisions by the Supreme Court of the Zionist state which reveal how racist this regime is. The first one is the citizenship law which will affect thousands of Palestinian families on both sides of the Green Line and the second is the Bil’in court case.

Citizenship Law
No one (including me) would have believed that Israel would take such a crazy step as this until the last few months. There is no country in the western world that has taken such a step, even the countries where terror attacks have occured on their civilians … Continue reading


Updated on January 10, 2009
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Video from Bil’in: Olive Tree Chaining

Posted on: May 4, 2005

Residents of Bil’in village, together with international and Israeli activists, chain themselves to olive trees that are to be uprooted to make way for the Israeli apartheid wall. The wall is currently being constructed in many areas of Palestine. For Bil’in it will result in the annexation of 2,400 dunums of land (600 acres) – over 50% of the land belonging to the village. This will facilitate massive Israeli settlement expansion east of the Green Line. Bil’in has carried out a series of non-violent protests against this land theft, and demonstrations are held at least once a week, usually more. … Continue reading


Updated on January 13, 2009
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