Tag: Olive harvest
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Settlers and army disrupted olive harvest in Jamma’in village
15 October 2009 For a week between 9 and 15 October, ISM activists have accompanied a group of families from the village of Jamma’in, picking in olive fields located just south of highway 505 and close to a large outpost of the Kfar Tappuah illegal settlement. The Palestinian farmers here have had problems with settlers…
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Residents of Burin protest the destruction of an olive grove by settlers
4 October 2009 The village of Burin came under attack from the nearby illegal settlement of Bracha on Monday the 28th of September. At 5am 25 settlers invaded the farmland of Abid Moussar, taking to his olive trees with chainsaws. 150 trees in total, covering 4 dunums of land were destroyed, just one day before…
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Farmers in Palestine create amazing produce in adverse conditions – and are fighting to export them
Joanna Blythman | The Guardian 13 September 2009 I’m standing in what remains of Taysir Sadia Yaseen’s olive grove, looking up at a 12ft-high wire fence. It arrived in 2000 when the Israeli army, without any notice, bulldozed a trench on this rocky, precipitous hillside and erected it on his land, declaring it part of…