School in a Cage
From a meeting the headmaster of the coeducational High School in Burin We arrive in the schoolyard, surrounded by big metal fences. Young boys are playing basketball. A loud “How are you? What is your name? Where are you from?”…
Olive Harvest: Occupied
Kufr Qalil is one of the most dangerous places to pick olives north of Ramallah. Several years ago fanatical illegal settlers from Bracha descended from the top of a hill and broke a jaw of an elderly olive picker. Ever since the Kufr…
Infamous settler causes disruption in Urif
Last Tuesday both the IWPS team and ISM team were harvesting olives in separate areas when we received a phone call telling us that there had been trouble with settlers from the illegal settlement Yitzhar and Israeli Occupation Forces…
No Support From the Second Floor
No Support from Second Floor Hani and Munira Amer still live with 2 of their as yet unmarried children in the home they made for their family in Mas’ha after being driven off their ancestral in al Nakba. They lived…
Dier Istyia Stands Against Settler Incursion
Two setter and army incursions into Deir Istiya in one day On 20 October a bus load of illegal settlers, about 60 of them, escorted by the Israeli army, entered Deir Istiya at 3pm via an agricultural road going through…
A Struggle to Harvest
Abu Said´s struggle to harvest on his land ´I will kill you all´, said the illegal Revava settler hurling abuses in Hebrew and in English at Abu Saed and a group of IWPS volunteers accompanying him, as he surged from…
Kufr Qaddum: A Friday Photo Essay
Please note that these are pictures and write up from Oct 3 2015 Demonstration in Kufr Qaddum: Some of these photos and the write up was posted to our facebook page but didn’t make it onto our website. Please visit us…
Protest against the closure of Al Aqsa & murder of a Silwan Palestinian
The wounding of the hate preacher Glich was followed by the army violence across occupied East Jerusalem and an Israeli military raid on a Silwan.
Illegal colony of Bruchin plans to expand
Land being stolen from Palestinian farmers for the expansion of the illegal settler colony of Bruchin.
Roads closed due to illegal settler demo
At approximately 16:30 on May 8, the Israeli army closed Zatara checkpoint in the central West Bank due to a settler demonstration in the junction. The roads from Ramallah to Nablus, Zatara to Jericho and Yasuf to Zatara were all closed to Palestinian cars.
Israeli military terrorizes organizing efforts in Nabi Saleh
As the non-violent demonstrators, children among them, reached the top of the hill, Israeli soldiers approached and immediately began shooting tear gas.
Olive Harvest: Issues and Challenges
Denial of access, principal stand to refuse to ask the occupiers for permission to access one’s land, transportation… IWPS Team reflects on the main challenges regarding our work with Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest season.
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