Category: Reports

  • The Olive and the F-16: Autumn in Gaza

    The Olive and the F-16: Autumn in Gaza

    by Radhika S. 27 October 2011 | Notes from Behind the Blockade Today completes another week of olive picking in Gaza.  Another week of pausing, breaths held, as Israeli tanks the color of sand moved nearby along the buffer zone, another week of children frightened at the sound of roaring F-16s, another week below the…

  • Settlers desperately try to fit the role by stealing olives

    Settlers desperately try to fit the role by stealing olives

    by Aida Gerard  25 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Tuesday, illegal settlers from the Susiya settlement harvested the olive trees belonging to the Abu Sabha family from Susiya and Yatta, South Hebron Hills. Around 12 o’ clock a villager from the area spotted two settlers picking olives from the land of…

  • Anata falls victim to militarized, illegal settlement once again

    Anata falls victim to militarized, illegal settlement once again

    by Jenna Bereld 26 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank When Mohammad woke up on Tuesday, he still did not know about the Israeli forces or the bulldozers that were on their way to uproot his trees and demolish his entire farm. But before the day was over, all of his property was erased and…