Tag: Olive Trees
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Settlers from illegal colony of Itamar destroy 1,500 Palestinian olive trees
12th July 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Awarta, Occupied Palestine On the morning of Thursday 11th July, villagers from Awarta found that 1,500 of their olive trees had been cut down over the last month by settlers from the illegal settlement of Itamar. When they attempted to highlight this crime with media…
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20 dunums of land and 200 olive trees set on fire by settlers in Sarra
3rd July 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Sarra, Occupied Palestine On the morning of the 30th of June, settlers from the illegal outpost of Havat Gilad rallied 100 settlers from the nearby illegal settlement of Qedumim to attack the land of the Palestinian village of Sarra. Late in the morning, settlers went…
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After the flames, only determination remains in Burin and Madama
3rd June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Burin and Madama, Occupied Palestine On Monday 3rd June, around a dozen settlers from the illegal colony of Yizhar set fire to Palestinian’s fields in the villages of Burin and Madama, destroying at least 50 acres of arable land with olive trees. The settlers were…
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Prelude to land theft: a livelihood trashed in Aqraba
21st May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Team Nablus | Aqraba, Occupied Palestine Seven hundred olive trees were uprooted first thing in the morning of 16th May while a bulldozer got to work destroying the farmer’s concrete water storage facility and surrounding dry stone walls and fences in Aqraba. The Israeli army, who did some…
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“Nothing forbidden for them, but nothing allowed for us”
14th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Qaryut, Occupied Palestine By Team Nablus Settlers from the illegal colony of Shilo set fire to land belonging to the nearby village of Qaryut. Around 25 families own land in this area. The land contained wheat crops and olive trees and is next to land previously stolen by…