Category: Reports

  • Burin celebrates successful olive harvest, despite numerous settler attacks

    18 November 2009 On Wednesday 18 November, the village of Burin (south of Nablus) celebrated the successful conclusion of its olive harvest. More than 400 villagers came together to hear speeches by locals and nationally renowned politicians (including member of Knesset Mohammed Baraka, general secretary of Hadash), as well as to see the young men…

  • Settlers cut olive trees south of Nablus

    12 November 2009 A group of 25 settlers from Yitzhar settlement, south of Nablus, cut down 97 olive trees in the village of Burin this morning. The attack comes on the heels of a similar attack made 5 weeks ago, and a continued campaign of intimidation and harrassment of Burin’s residents from nearby settlements Yitzhar…

  • al-Ma’sara demonstrates against the Apartheid Wall

    The al-Ma’sara Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements 13 November 2009 In memory of the fifth year since the death of Yaser Arafat, who was poisoned by the Israeli army, villagers of Al-Ma’sara gathered today along with Israeli and international activists in protest against the illegal Apartheid Wall and settlement building. The protesters raised…