ACTION ALERT: JOIN ISM!

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 activists to support the Palestinian popular struggle by joining protests and demonstrations, to document and report on the crimes […]

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Settlers uproot 53 olive trees in Qalqiliya, attack farmer

Ma’an News Agency (updated) 22/10/2013 22:18 NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers on Tuesday uprooted 53 olive trees in Kafr Laqif village west of Qalqiliya, officials said. Ghassan Douglas, a Palestinian Authority official who monitors settlement activities in the northern West Bank, said that a number of Israeli settlers from the Karni Shomron settlement uprooted around […]

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Extremist Settlers Caught On Tap Attacking Palestinian Villagers

 Tuesday October 22, 2013 09:29 by IMEMC & Agencies Israeli TV, Channel 2, published a video showing a group of extremist Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers picking olive trees in their own land, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Still From Attack Video – Israeli Channel 2 The settlers targeted Palestinians picking olives […]

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IOF bar Palestinians from harvesting olive trees in Idna town

[ PIC 20/10/2013 – 11:13 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) prevented on Saturday hundreds of Palestinian citizens from reaching their cultivated lands in Idna town south of Al-Khalil city for the olive harvest. An official from Idna municipal council told Quds Press on Sunday that the IOF had been pursuing an […]

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Settlers assault villagers picking olives in Burin

Al Ray Agencies | Oct 17, 2013 Gaza, ALRAY – Dozens of Israeli settlers attacked on Thursday afternoon farmers Burin village in the northern occupied West Bank city of Nablus, driving them out of their lands. Nemer al-Tirawi of Burin told Safa Press Agency that “nearly 100 settlers from the Yitzhar settlement assaulted us while […]

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Settlers steal olives from 110+ trees in Abu Huwar – Report by @ISMPalestine

7th of October | International Solidarity Movement, Team Nablus | Deir Sharaf, Occupied Palestine On the 5th of October, local farmers discovered that the olives from more than one hundred trees had been stolen, and that another ten trees had been damaged or destroyed. Abu Huwar farm, belonging to Yasser Fuqaha, Sidqi Fukaha, Mustafa Fuqaha […]

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Escalation in settlers’ attacks as olive harvest season approached

[ PIC 04/10/2013 – 11:28 AM ] OCCUPIED WB, (PIC)– The Israeli settlers’ attacks have escalated recently in West Bank cities, where they uprooted on Thursday 40 olive seedlings in Yatta, south of al-Khalil. Dozens of settlers stormed Khella Gazioa area in Yatta town and uprooted 40 olive seedlings under the protection of Israeli forces, […]

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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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#Israel’s occupation soldiers prevent farmers from harvesting their olive crops

[ PIC 22/10/2012 – 11:24 AM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) prevented a group of Palestinian farmers from reaching their land in Orta village, south east of Nablus, to harvest their olive crops, local sources said. Eyewitnesses said that the farmers had obtained permits to reach their fields near the segregation wall surrounding […]

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PRESS RELEASE | Five attacks on olive harvesters and damaged olive groves in four days ~ B’Tselem

B’Tselem | Published 11 Oct 2012 Events raise suspicion that Security forces not prepared to protect Palestinian olive harvesters and their property from settler violence Between October 7th and 10th, 2012, with the start of the West Bank’s annual olive harvest, B’Tselem has documented five cases of injury to Palestinian farmers and their olive trees in […]

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Collective Punishment: Israel deprives entire village of olive harvesting

[ PIC 16/10/2012 – 06:53 PM ] JENIN, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have denied access permission to the inhabitants of Teyba village, west of Jenin, to enter their land behind the segregation wall and harvest their olive fruit. Ahmed Jabarin, the head of the village’s municipal council, told the PIC reporter that the village […]

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Israeli soldiers block Palestinian farmers from reaching their olive fields

[ PIC 13/10/2012 – 04:09 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) blocked on Saturday Palestinian farmers from reaching their olive fields in Beit Ummar village to the north of Al-Khalil. Local sources said that IOF soldiers were deployed on mountaintops overlooking the village and at its entrance after citizens organized their weekly march […]

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B’Tselem: Israeli Army not prepared to protect Palestinian harvesters

Al Qassam Website | 13-10-2012,09:01 Al Qassam website (Agencies) – B’Tselem” human rights organization has documented a number of attacks carried out by the Israeli settlers and targeting farmers and olive groves throughout the West Bank. The organization stated that the events raise suspicion that Security forces were not prepared to protect Palestinian olive harvesters […]

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PHOTOS | Settlers Attack and Injure Palestinians Harvesting Olives in Tel Rumeida

12 October 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank In two separate incidents on Wednesday 10th and Friday 12th October 2012 settlers from the illegal settlement in Tel Rumeida, Hebron stole olives from two trees belonging to Jawad Abu Eisheh and attacked his family whilst they attempted to harvest from their land. Between 2pm and […]

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#VIDEO | Israeli settlers attack old 75 year old Palestinian farmer and left badly wounded behind

Oct 7, 2012 by PressTVGlobalNews Fifty-seven-year old farmer Abdel Karim Ma’aqel was attacked by settlers near his olive grove in the village of Muchmas, south of Ramallah. The farmer was tending to his trees when a group of 15-20 settlers from the nearby settlement Migron attacked him using weapons. Ma’aqel was left badly wounded and […]

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