Tag: Olive Harvest 2011
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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 the funeral, settlers from the adjacent Berakha settlement took the opportunity to visit the household’s…
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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 activists have been prevented by the military from attending olive harvests during the past two…
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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 the north of the Gaza Strip, requested that ISM volunteers accompany them to pick olives…