20 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Early Thursday morning, a Palestinian woman in Beit Furik was picking olives when a settler began to chase her and set loose wild hogs to chase after her, causing her to ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »While village attended funeral, Zionists stole
18 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Tuesday, a family in Kufr Qalil cancelled all olive harvest because of the death of a family member. While the people in the household were at the cemetery to attend ...
Read More »Burin: Zionist soldiers and colonists collaborate against harvesting
by Alistair George 17 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The Israeli military conducted arrests, mistreated detainees and continued to prevent villagers from picking olives in certain areas of Burin, near Nablus, yesterday on October 16 2011. International ...
Read More »Honeymoon in Gaza
16 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza I had just finished off a plate of homemade bread knaffe yesterday with a family in the south of Gaza, when we got the call: farmers in Beit Hanoun, a village in ...
Read More »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. ...
Read More »Gaza: Planting the symbol of Palestinian livelihood
12 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza The zone of death, what Israel calls the buffer zone, to the north of Beit Hanoun isn’t shrinking but is a little less dead. For the last three years, the only life ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »Wasteland in al Walajeh: Israeli military destruction of farmland
7 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Tuesday September 6th local Palestinians from the village of Al Walajeh gathered with international activists to protest the building of the illegal separation barrier as well as the destruction of ancient ...
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