Tag Archives: Olive Trees

25th January 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | As Sawiya, Occupied Palestine On January 24th, 2015, ISM activists visited As Sawiya, a Palestinian village located near Salfit. The village is home to around 3,500 people.  Seven mountains surround ...

13th January 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus team | Yasuf, Occupied Palestine On Monday, January 11th, a farmer in Yasuf went out to see how his land had weathered during the recent storm and saw that a large number of ...

20th December 2014 | International Solidarity Movement | Turmusaya, Occupied Palestine Update 22 December: Palestinian activists Mohammed Khatib and Jaffar Hamayel, both arrested on December 19 while peacefully demonstrating in Turmusaya, were released today, December 22, on bail of 7500 shekel ...

11th December 2014 | International Solidarity Movement | Turmusaya, Occupied Palestine Yesterday, an Israeli soldier killed Palestinian Authority (PA) Settlment minister, Ziad Abu Ein, at a non-violent demonstration in the village of Turmusaya. ISM spoke to Abdallah Abu-Rahme, coordinator of ...

22nd October 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus team | Huwwara, Occupied Palestine This morning at approximately 09:30, settlers from the illegal settlement of  Yizhar set fire to a Palestinian olive field above Huwwara village, just outside of Nablus. The settlers ...

23rd September 2014 | International Solidarity Movement | Awarta, Occupied Palestine On the 28th of August, around 7:00 a.m., Israeli settlers from the illegal settlement of Itamar cut down and burnt more than 30 olive trees belonging to Awarta village before ...

10th September 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus team | Burin, Occupied Palestine The prominent activist from the West Bank village of Burin, and member of Solidarity Movement for Free Palestine, Ghassan Najjar, was taken by the Israeli army from his home ...

16th August 2014 | International Solidarity Movement | Occupied Palestine The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) is placing a call out for volunteers to join us in the West Bank now, and for the olive harvest beginning in October. We need solidarity ...

7th June 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine At approximately 1:00 pm on June 4th, a burning olive tree was located in the vicinity of Tel Rumeida, al-Khalil (Hebron). The Palestinian firefighters extinguished the fire with no ...

6 March 2014| International Solidarity Movement, Team Nablus| Talfeet, Occupied Palestine Farmers caught a settler cutting down olive trees in Talfeet, delivered him to the Israeli police and lodge a complaint toward him. This morning, at around 10:30, three farmers ...