by Jonas Weber 10 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank “Hurry up you turtles!” Wael yelled in the distance. He had suddenly turned this walk into some kind of contest. We skipped across the rocky landscape of Palestine, ...
Read More »Celebrating heroes and olives: Qaryut begins to dismantle roadblock
by Aaron 5 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Hundreds of peaceful demonstrators confronted heavily armed Israeli soldiers this Friday, February 3rd, at a new protest in the village of Qaryut, planting nearly one hundred trees and partially ...
Read More »A new stage for West Bank popular resistance
by Dylan Collins 28 January 2012 | The Palestine Monitor In a hazy room, clouded with cigarette smoke and steam from hot syrup-sweat tea, residents of Kafr ad-Dik and its neighboring villages, along with Palestinian, Israeli, and international activists, excitedly gathered ...
Read More »Al Jazeera: Resistance is fertile: Palestine’s eco-war
James Brownsell | Al Jazeera English After uprooting thousands of olive trees, Israel’s latest plantation may pose a fire risk to its own citizens. They come from across the planet and meet in the shadow of Israel’s 12m concrete wall. They ...
Read More »Refusing to die in silence: Palestinians resist settler violence during the olive harvest
Ben Lorber 29 October 2011 | Mondoweiss As this year’s olive harvest sends Palestinian families across all of historic Palestine out to their olive trees, a new nonviolent resistance group called Refusing to Die In Silence is patrolling the West ...
Read More »Harvesting olives as a statement of resistance
by Ben Lorber 24 October 2011 | The Electronic Intifada Palestinian villages across the West Bank are undertaking their annual olive harvest this October, amid fears of harassment and violence from Israeli settlers and soldiers. While the Palestinian olive harvest is ...
Read More »Israeli tanks patrol olive farmers in Gaza
23 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Olive farmers and volunteers were picking olives on 23 October 2011 when they were circled by two Apache helicopters and were faced by four tanks at certain points in the day. This ...
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 ...
Read More »Yitzhar settlers violently crash Burin wedding, military watches
6 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank While villagers were celebrating a wedding in the small village of Burin, Israeli arsonists from the illegal settlement of Yitzhar seized the opportunity to set ablaze olive groves, destroying over 200 olive trees. ...
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