Tag: Farmers

  • It’s time to harvest the crop: Accompanying farmers in Gaza under Israeli fire

    It’s time to harvest the crop: Accompanying farmers in Gaza under Israeli fire

    by Rosa Schiano Translation by Claudia Saba 23 April 2012 | il Blog di Oliva Israeli soldiers have already started shooting onto the land along the border of the Gaza Strip. Two injured just in the first two days of the harvest. Renad Salem Qdeeh, 33, was collecting he crop from her land when Israeli…

  • Israeli army demolish houses and wells in Kufr ad Dik

    by Aura and Robin  17 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Early Monday morning the IOF came to Kufr ad-Dik and demolished three houses and three water wells, along with several tents belonging to Bedouin families nearby. Settlements Bruchin, Alei Zahav, and Pedu’el are expanding quickly, claiming more and more Palestinian land and making life…

  • Fadi Abu Zeitoun, killed as settlers attacked farmers

    Fadi Abu Zeitoun, killed as settlers attacked farmers

    by Rana H. 9 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Israeli settlers attacked and chased a group of Palestinian farmers last Thursday, causing a tractor to flip over during the chase, causing the death of the Palestinian driver. On Thursday, April 5th, armed settlers from the illegal Israeli colony of Itamar attacked a…