Tag: Olive Trees
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Planting olive trees as an act of resistance
21 January 2024 | International Solidarity Movement | Umm Safa On January 20, ISM volunteers joined with Israeli activists to work alongside villagers of Umm Safa, a village 30km north of Ramallah, planting olive trees and vines on part of the 200 dunums (50 acres) of the village’s communal land. Replacing some of the…
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Olive Harvest 2022: Call for Volunteers
September 15 | International Solidarity Movement | Occupied Palestine ISM is issuing an urgent call out for volunteers to join the 2022 Olive Harvest at the invitation of Palestinian communities, starting next month. Olive trees are a national symbol in Palestine. As hundreds of thousands of trees have been uprooted by the Israeli military…
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Al Shoroq: The activist farmers resisting Israeli annexation in Beit Ummar
August 20 | International Solidarity Movement | Beit Ummar, Occupied Palestine Beit Ummar is an agricultural town and farming community just north of Hebron, with a populace of about 17,000. Al Shoroq, a Palestinian led group comprised of local activists based in the region since 2013 founded by longstanding committee members, work with…
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Water Series: IOF destroy farmland east of Hebron – ISM speaks to owner Ghassan Jaber
July 30 2019 | International Solidarity Movement | Bit Arawa, occupied Palestine This is the first of a series of reports documenting the control and devastation of water sources by Israel as a tool of oppression. On Thursday 18th July Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) came to the Al Baqa’a area, east of Hebron, and…
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Settlers’ continue to terrorize Al-Khalil
17th February 2019 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine At the end of January the occupation barred international ‘observer’ groups from Al-Khalil (Hebron), who were stationed throughout the city for more than 20 years, following the massacre of 29 Palestinians inside Ibrahim mosque in 1994 by a fanatical Israeli terrorist.…
