Tag: Yizhar settlement
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Ongoing harassment and restrictions on farmers around Nablus
12th March 2015 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Burin, Salim, and Awarta, Occupied Palestine Early spring marks an important time of the year for farmers around Nablus, where critical work must be done to ensure a quality olive harvest in October. In high tension regions, where farmers risk settler attacks while accessing their land, District Coordination Offices…
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Zionist settlers burn Palestinian olive grove
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 set the land on fire from the top of the hill. People from the village…
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For Urif the price can never be high enough
15th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Urif, Occupied Palestine On Tuesday, 11th June, Israeli forces invaded the village of Urif and arrested nine youths between the ages of eighteen and twenty-seven. This incident is believed by the villagers to be related to the ‘price-tag’ settler attacks that the village suffered on…
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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…