
A prayer under an olive tree
Nsaf wakes up early this morning to get ready for her daily hour walk to her olive grove. Earlier in the week some IWPS volunteers joined her, a mother-of-nine now 61 years old, to pick olives with her husband, her…

Unprecedented Settlement Expansion in Salfit
Kufr Dik and Bruqin – an update on the ongoing cycle of water shortages, settler sewage problems, and unprecedented settlement expansion. “This [Netanyahu’s] government has destroyed all hope of peace”, resident of Kufr Dik The water issue The two villages…

Demolition Orders, Water Shortage and Harassment: An Update on Bruqin
“My son is sick. Within one year, they arrested him three times. During one arrest, they shackled him as he shook and cried…. he was terrified.”

Deaf Valley Farmers Call For International Accompaniment During the Olive Harvest
Palestinians who own land in Deaf Valley are nearly surrounded by illegal settlements and settler roads and are under constant alert to the possibility of harassment or attacks by illegal settlers.

Farmer Starting His Olive Harvest Season With an Order For Demolition From the Occupation Army
An old Ottoman law is being used by the Israeli occupiers to steal even more Palestine land.

A Bleak Future for Bruqin and Kufr al-Dik
“Salfit region is like Jerusalem, covered in settlements and very much wanted by the Israelis.”

Illegal colony of Bruchin plans to expand
Land being stolen from Palestinian farmers for the expansion of the illegal settler colony of Bruchin.