Tag Archives: farming

BEAUTIFUL PHOTOS | Harvesting Dates in Gaza

Sept 27, 2013 Photos by PalInfo Photos by PalToday – Oct 3, 2013 Related Special Topic | Egypts Siege on Gaza – Live Blog Special Topic | All Israeli Cease Fire Violations – Live Blog Special Topic | Gaza Under Attack – Photo Blog Special Topic | Slow Death of Gaza– Latest Report

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Israel exploits Egypt turmoil to increase attacks on Gaza farmers ~ by @jncatron

Israel continues to violate the terms of a 2012 ceasefire by attacking farmers in Gaza. (Eyad Al Baba / APA images)   18th September 2013 | The Electronic Intifada, Joe Catron | ISM Palestine |  Gaza City, Occupied Palestine Farming in the Gaza Strip’s “buffer zone” is hazardous under the best circumstances. Israeli troops routinely shoot live ammunition […]

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Palestinian farmer hit with IOF bullet

[ PIC 31/08/2013 – 06:52 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– A Palestinian farmer was moderately wounded when Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened fire at him to the east of Jabaliya, north of Gaza Strip, on Friday night. Medical sources told the PIC reporter that the 20-year-old farmer, Yousef Saad, was hit with a bullet in his […]

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Zionist Settlers Burn Palestinian Farmlands Near Nablus

Friday June 28, 2013 07:12 | by IMEMC & Agencies Report post Villages of the Sabastia area, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, have reported that a number of extremist Israeli settlers burnt, Thursday [June 27 2013], Palestinian agricultural lands planted with Olive and Almond trees. FIle – Lands Burnt By Settlers Nael […]

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Israel prevents tractors entering to lands behind the Apartheid Wall

[ PIC 19/06/2013 – 09:16 PM ] WEST BANK, (PIC)– Palestinian farmers called for pressuring the Israeli authorities to cancel its decision to prevent tractors entering to agricultural lands behind the Apartheid Wall. The Israeli recent decision aims to destroy the Palestinian agricultural lands located behind the apartheid wall, the farmer Walid Qabaha said. He […]

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Israeli incursion eastern Gaza ends after destroying farm land

[ PIC 29/04/2013 – 11:36 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) advanced few hundred yards into Shujaia suburb to the far east of Gaza city on Monday morning. Reliable sources said that IOF soldiers in an armored vehicle escorted three military bulldozers that started leveling Palestinian farm land. They said that the soldiers […]

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“My land is like my identity…I will always replant my trees” – farmer resists as 500 olive trees uprooted in Beit Dajan

24th April 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Beit Dajan, Occupied Palestine By Team Nablus Jamal Kanaan stays steadfast in Beit Dajan On the 22nd April 2013, 500 trees belonging to Beit Dajan villager Jamal Kanaan were uprooted by the Israeli military; making a total of six times since 2002 that his olive trees have been […]

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Israeli occupation forces destroy Palestinian agricultural facilities in the Jordan Valley

Note from occpal: Israel destroyed over 2,5 Million trees Since 1967 only (Report Page 31) while last summer, it was boasting about it’s ‘agricultural development at the Floriade 2012 World Expo (More about that here) [ PIC 23/04/2013 – 09:33 PM ] JORDAN VALLEY, (PIC)– Israeli Occupation Forces have demolished on Tuesday Palestinian agricultural facilities […]

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Israeli forces bulldoze farm shelters near Bethlehem

Maan News Agency | April 18, 2013 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces on Thursday demolished two agricultural shelters in a village south of Bethlehem, the al-Khader popular committee said. Israel bulldozed the farm shelters in the al-Haboun area of al-Khader to provoke farmers and to keep them away from their land, said committee member Ahmad […]

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Israeli occupation forces bulldoze cultivated land in Salfit to build watchtower

“Settling” constitutes a warcime according to international law and ICC statute. Even under US’ own military legislations’ Law resources below this article [ PIC 21/03/2013 – 02:31 PM ] SALFIT, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) bulldozed cultivated land lots in Hares village near Salfit city to prepare for building a military watchtower. Omar Samara, the […]

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Jewish settlers seize control of Palestinian farmland

[ PIC 16/03/2013 – 04:58 PM ] BETHLEHEM, (PIC)– A group of Jewish settlers seized control of a Palestinian cultivated land lot in Khader town, south of Bethlehem, on Saturday. Ahmed Salah, the coordinator of the village’s committee against the wall and settlement, said that settlers from Eliezer settlement, established on Khader land, started to […]

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VIDEO | Israel restricts farmers’ access to Bethlehem land

“Settling” constitutes a warcime according to international law and ICC statute. Even under US’ own military legislations’ Law resources below this article Maan News Agency | Febr 27, 2013   BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities have installed an iron gate at the entrance to a Bethlehem neighborhood, restricting Palestinian farmers’ access to 400 acres of […]

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Israeli occupation soldiers arrest youth, prevent family from farming their land

[ PIC 21/02/2013 – 12:35 PM ] BETHLEHEM, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested a Palestinian youth at the Container roadblock, to the north east of Bethlehem, at dawn Thursday. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers stopped a car at the checkpoint and ordered all commuters to get out of it and checked their IDs before detaining […]

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VIDEO | Palestine marks intl. day of action for boycotting Israeli agricultural products

Published on Feb 10, 2013 Foreign and Palestinian activists as well as farmers, fishermen and members of the union of agricultural workers committees from International Action for Palestine have marked the international day of action for boycotting the Israeli agricultural products. They say the agricultural products are used by Israel to infringe on the rights […]

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Call from Palestinian farmers and fishermen – Day of action in Zeitoun, Gaza City and Madama, Nablus

  8 February 2013 | BDS Movement | ISM Palestine Gaza City Action: Meet 11 am in Zeitoun Neighbourhood, next to the Car Market “Souq Sayarat” and Al Handasya Company. The march will then begin from Malaka Cross towards the farmland near the Israeli frontier. West Bank Action: Meet 10 am in Madama village, next […]

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