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Aqraba plants olive trees to ward off settlers
1 August 2010 | ISM Media Residents of the village of Aqraba, near Nablus, planted forty young olive trees on their land on Thursday (29 July 2010) to send a message to settlers who have been plowing the area in an attempted land-grab. The Palestinian villagers were accompanied by many international volunteers – around thirty people from an American group called the Holy Land Trust and about eight ISM activists. The group gathered at ten in…
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Remembering Art Gish
1 August 2010 American peace activist Art Gish died on Wednesday in a tractor accident on his organic farm in Athens, Ohio, at the age of 70. Gish and his wife Peggy – currently in Iraq – dedicated much of their lives to promoting peace in the Middle East through nonviolent action. As a member of the Christian Peacemakers Team (CPT) based in Al Khalil (Hebron) in the West Bank, Gish lived up to the CPT’s…
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Wadi Qana farmland being polluted by settlement sewage
31 July 2010 | ISM and IWPS (International Women’s Peace Service) Wadi Qana is a valley south west of Nablus where numerous springs supply water to the surrounding Palestinian villages. Approximately 60 people live in the valley itself, and many more own land in the area in which they farm animals and cultivate both citrus and olive trees. The valley and its springs have been suffering from the effects of raw sewage, which has been leaking…
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