Tag: Farmers

  • Palestinians farming creatively to overcome the ‘buffer zone’

    21 August 2011 | Islam Online, Hama Waqum On Nakba Day in May, thousands of Palestinians edged towards Israel’s borders with Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Gaza, demanding their Right of Return, and an end to the Israeli occupation. Many of these protestors would return to demonstrate on the Naksa Day in June. A major…

  • Songs tear down fences in Izbat Tabib

    13 July 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On July 13th villagers in the small town of Izbat Tabib wanted to protest against the illegal Israeli construction of barbed wire fences outside the village, preventing farmers from tending their lands and olive trees. In the beginning of the afternoon, villagers and international activists gathered at the mayor’s…

  • Attempts to tend to farmland result in arrests

    13 July 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On the 12th of July 2011, 4 ISM members with a group of international activists, including Israeli, French, Belgian, Portuguese and a 5 Palestinians attempted to enter the illegally, occupied farmland of a Palestinian landowner in Beit Ommar. The initial plan was to try to farm and clean…