Tag: Olive Trees

  • Olive trees destroyed outside Bethlehem

    31 May 2011 | International Solidarity Movement This morning Maher Abu Sab’a’ discovered that 248 out of the 250 olive tree saplings that had recently been planted on his land had been destroyed over-night. The saplings which had been planted three months previously had been systematically uprooted from the earth and broken with their remains…

  • Green Palestine marks Nakba day

    19 May 2011 | International Solidarity Movement With the creation of Israel in 1948, four hundred and eighteen Palestinian villages were wiped out and destroyed, displacing hundreds of thousands of Palestinian people from homes they had lived in for generations. This year on May 17, in further commemoration of the Nakba (the Catastrophe), the ISM…

  • Army fires on Iraq Burin during olive tree planting

    10 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement Bullets and tear gas were fired upon Palestinians and internationals whilst they planted olive trees on the land legally owned by the village of Iraq Burin yesterday. The popular committee asked for a group of internationals to assist them in planting olive trees on the village land which…