Tag: Olive Trees

  • Olive tree planting in the village of Bruqin

    Olive tree planting in the village of Bruqin

    9th April 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, Ramallah team | Bruqin, occupied Palestine On 8th April 2017 an ISM team joint Abu Skander, a farmer from the village of Bruqin, Salfit district, to plant 30 new olive trees on his field within the village. The village is located close to the illegal Israeli settlement of Bruchin and…

  • Wadi Qana’s Palestinian farmers endure another mass tree uprooting

    Wadi Qana’s Palestinian farmers endure another mass tree uprooting

    5th April 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Just days after Palestinians commemorated Land Day, a day which marks the struggle against the Israeli government’s expropriation of Palestinian land, farmers of Wadi Qana endured another mass uprooting and theft of their trees. Speaking from his home in the Salfit district…

  • URGENT ACTION: Four Palestinian Human Rights Defenders arrested facing military trial

    URGENT ACTION: Four Palestinian Human Rights Defenders arrested facing military trial

    1st April 2017  |  International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team  |  Hebron, occupied Palestine  The four human rights activists arrested three days ago on Thursday 30th March on a peaceful Land Day protest action now face the Israeli military court at Ofer tomorrow, 2nd April.  They are charged with participating in an illegal demonstration and being…