Tag: Farmers
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In Photos: The survival of olives
16 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The olive harvest started in theWest Bankin early October and will continue in some villages until mid-November. Olives have been cultivated in Palestinian land for thousands of years. Around 95% of the harvest is used to make olive oil, with the remainder for pickles, table olives,…
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Israeli military “superiors” interfere in Burin’s olive harvest
by Alistair George 12 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The Israeli military ordered villagers to stop picking olives on their own land in Burin, near Nablus, today. The soldiers refused to give a reason for suspending the harvest. “It is nothing to do with us, we just get orders from our superiors,” they…
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Demolitions: Israel annexing more land in Kufr ad-Dik and Salfit
4 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Tuesday around 11am the Israeli army carried out demolitions in the West Bank towns of Beit Ula and Kufr ad-Dik, destroying homes, animal pens, wells and hundreds of trees. Yousef Muhammed Turshan sat amongst the rubble that used to be the home for him, his…
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Essam Aoudhi: Martyred in defense of Qusra
23 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Today Essam Kamal Abed Aoudhi, a 35 year old father of 8 children from the village of Qusra, was murdered by the Israeli army as they fired live ammunition indiscriminately into a crowd of villagers gathered in their village. From the nearby outpost of Esh Kodesh…
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Broken wrists and arrests by Israeli military as farmers cultivate Beit Ummar
10 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Supporting Palestinian farmers in Beit Ummar, international activists joined the weekly Saturday activities–clearing the land for cultivation despite the harrassment of Israeli military and illegal settlers, which resulted in the injury of a Palestinian man and the arrest of a British national, Jude Wells. At 9…