Israeli settlers chop Palestinian olive trees; destroy farmland in northern West Bank | cc @Greenpeace

Sunday October 06, 2013 23:54 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News As Palestinian farmers across the West bank prepare for the annual olive harvest, several attacks by Israeli settlers have destroyed the harvest of a number of these farmers. On Saturday near Nablus, Israeli settlers chopped down over one hundred olive trees, just a few […]

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More army and colonial terrorism: Clashes in Jenin, settlers bulldoze lands in al-Khalil

[ PIC 05/07/2013 – 04:19 PM ] WEST BANK, (PIC)– Israeli Occupation Forces stormed at dawn today Araba village, southwest of Jenin, for 2 hours and arrested a Palestinian after raiding and searching his house. Local sources said that Israeli forces raided the village and arrested Ahmed Adnan Merdawi, 23, brother of the sick prisoner […]

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Jewish settlers seize hundreds of dunums of cultivated land

“Settling” constitutes a warcime according to international law and ICC statute. Even under US’ own military legislations’ Law resources below this article [ PIC 29/04/2013 – 07:31 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Jewish settlers laid their hands to hundreds of dunums of Palestinian cultivated land lots to the east of Nablus city on Monday. Ghassan Daghlas, […]

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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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Israeli occupation soldiers bulldoze fertile farmland in Jenin

[ PIC 11/04/2013 – 03:40 PM ] JENIN, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) bulldozed Palestinian fertile farmland between two villages in Jenin province to pave the way for construction of a new street. Local sources said that IOF soldiers were deployed in the land between Fakua and Arbuna villages and guarded the bulldozers. They pointed […]

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Israel’s Colonial Terrorism: Settlers drench Palestinian land with wastewater

[ PIC 24/01/2013 – 10:56 AM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Jewish settlers drenched Palestinian cultivated land to the west of Nablus with wastewater and ruined crops causing huge material damage to the farmers. Nader Al-Shaer, the mayor of Sabastiya village, told the PIC on Wednesday that Jewish settlers in Shavi Shimron settlement used to collect their […]

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Farmers: Nablus village flooded by settlement sewage

Maan News Agency | Jan 22, 2013   NABLUS (Ma’an) — Farmers in the northern West Bank village of Sebastiya in Nablus say their fields have become a dump for waste-water from the nearby Israeli settlement Shave Shomron. Since early January, settlers have been pumping their sewage into the al-Khallah area of Sebastiya, flooding fields […]

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#WestBankUnderAttack | Jewish settlers attack, destroy Palestinian farmland

[ PIC 25/11/2012 – 01:23 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Jewish settlers attacked the village of Qasra, south of Nablus city, and destroyed vast areas of its farmland, local sources said. Ghassan Daghlas, in-charge of monitoring settlement activity north of the West Bank, said on Sunday that the settlers from various settlements established on the village’s […]

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#WestBankUnderAttack | Jewish settlers pump wastewater into Palestinian farmland

[ PIC 24/10/2012 – 07:29 PM ] BETHLEHEM, (PIC)– Jewish settlers pumped wastewater into Palestinian farmland in Nahalin village to the west of Bethlehem on Wednesday. Osama Shakarne, the Nahalin municipality chief, said that settlers from Beitar Elit settlement pumped wastewater into Palestinian land cultivated with almonds, olives, and grapes. He said that the settlers […]

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Update for #Floriade2012: ‘Israeli agricultural development’: Israeli forces uproot land in Bethlehem village

Maan News Agency | Aug 13, 2012 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli bulldozers uprooted agricultural land in the Bethlehem village of al-Khader on Monday, a local committee said. Ahmad Salah, spokesman for the local committee against the wall and settlements, told Ma’an that five dunams of private Palestinian land were leveled in al-Absiyya, near the settlement […]

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Israeli machine gun fire burns down farmland in Khan Younis

#Floriade2012 | Israel’s Facade at the World Expo Floriade | Report [ PIC 14/06/2012 – 11:28 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– A devastating fire broke out on Thursday afternoon in a large tract of agricultural land east of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip after it came under heavy machine gun fire from Israeli military posts […]

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Witnesses: Settlers torch agricultural crops in Yatta

Maan News Agency | May 20, 2012 HEBRON (Ma’an) — A group of settlers on Sunday set fire to agricultural crops in the Hebron town of Yatta, locals said. Witnesses told Ma’an that settlers torched wheat and barley crops belonging to Yousef Abu Sabha. Farmers in Yatta fear more attacks and are reluctant to harvest […]

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#GazaUnderAttack – Army Bombards Farmlands In Gaza

 Friday March 16, 2012 00:06 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies The Israeli Air Force bombarded, on Thursday evening, Palestinian farmlands in Sheikh Ejleen area, west of Gaza city; no injuries were reported. Maan Images Eyewitnesses told the Maan News Agency that the missiles landed and detonated at the farmlands, and that an Apache […]

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Army Uproots Farmlands Near Hebron

Tuesday March 13, 2012 22:00 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Israeli soldiers uprooted, on Tuesday, Palestinian farmlands that belong to local residents of the Al-Majnouna area, south of Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank. Resident Mohammad Amro told the Palestinian information center that army bulldozers uprooted trees and farmlands in […]

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Israeli Forces Prevent Farmer from Entering his Land

WAFA FEB 26 2012 HEBRON, February 26, 2012 (WAFA) – Israeli forces Sunday prevented a Palestinian famer from Beit Ummar, a town north of the northern West Bank city of Hebron, from entering his land under the pretext of declaring it a closed military zone, according to a local activist. Spokesman of the National Committee […]

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