Tag: Olive harvest

  • Picking olives in a cage

    Picking olives in a cage

    Journal by Ellie Marton 25 October 2012 |  International Solidarity Movement, West Bank   I spent Tuesday inside a cage. Not my usual way to spend a sunny Tuesday – but for the Palestinian farmers I was with, this is routine. This is because their land happens to be near the illegal Israeli settlement of…

  • 3 Arrested as Palestinians attacked by settlers and soldiers in Tel Rumeida

    3 Arrested as Palestinians attacked by settlers and soldiers in Tel Rumeida

    By Vicky Blackwell and Elyana Belle Photographs by Vicky Blackwell 22 October 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank VIDEO from Youth Against Settlements: UPDATE: 10.30pm – All 3 men have now been released without charge. Today, a group of settlers from the illegal settlement in Tel Rumeida arrived at Hashem Azzeh’s olive grove next to…

  • Arson Attack on Olive Trees in Qaryut

    Arson Attack on Olive Trees in Qaryut

    14 October 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Latif Ali with one of her trees that were destroyed. Last night in the West Bank village of Qaryut, 12 Palestinian owned olive trees were irreparably destroyed in a late night arson attack by Israelis from the illegal West Bank settlement of Eli. The attack follows…