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PHOTOS: Palestinians plant trees to defy Israeli land confiscation
Palestinian farmers and volunteers plant olive trees to protest an Israeli military order to confiscate Palestinian land for one of the most extreme settlements in the West Bank. Photos and text by Ahmad al-Bazz / Activestills.org The Israeli army on Thursday tried to prevent some 50 Palestinian farmers and volunteers from planting olive trees and tilling…
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Activestills
January 26, 2017
PHOTOS: How the state builds a road for West Bank settlers
Israeli authorities continue to uproot Palestinian-owned olive trees in order to build a road for nearby settlers. Photos by Keren Manor / Activestills, text by Yael Marom Israeli authorities uprooted dozens of olive trees in order to build a settler road near the West Bank city of Qalqilya on Monday morning. The Israeli army declared the area…
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Activestills
January 16, 2017
PHOTOS: Israeli authorities uproot olive trees to build settler-only road
The Nabi Elias bypass road, which will serve Israeli settlers, requires the confiscation of 25 acres of Palestinian land. Photos and text by Keren Manor / Activestills.org Civil Administration contractors accompanied by Israeli soldiers uprooted around 250 Palestinian-owned olive trees Sunday near the West Bank city of Qalqilya, as part of a larger plan to build a…
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Activestills
January 8, 2017
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A letter from al-Walaja: Wars, walls and now roads
A new Israeli-planned road, ostensibly meant to give the Cremisan Monastery access to Israel and Jerusalem, will cut off the Bethlehem-area village of al-Walaja from its lands. Its lands were taken and villagers displaced in first in 1948; in recent years Israel began completely surrounding it with the separation wall, taking even more land. Village resident…
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Activestills
December 10, 2013
PHOTOS: A state-sanctioned ‘price tag’ on Palestinian olive trees
Weeks after an Israeli couple is injured in a firebomb attack, soldiers and civilians arrive to cut down Palestinian-owned olive trees in what one settler news outlet is calling the army’s own ‘price tag’ attack. Israeli civilians accompanied by the military damaged or destroyed some 60 Palestinian-owned olive trees Monday in the West Bank village…
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Activestills
November 26, 2013
The silent axe: Driving Palestinian olive farmers off their land
The daily terrorism directed against Palestinians in the West Bank is reliant on the despair Palestinians have for the Israeli justice system. A case in point: olive trees burned to the ground. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz Amira Hass last week wrote about the “quiet terror attacks,” the ones Israelis don’t hear about. They occur…
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+972 Magazine
November 3, 2013
PHOTOS: Hundreds of olive trees destroyed near West Bank village
Nearly 230 olive trees were destroyed earlier this week in the northern West Bank. According to B’Tselem, an Israeli NGO that documents human rights violations in the occupied territories, the trees belonged to the Radwan family from the village Azzoun, and were planted no more than five years ago. The family began harvesting the trees,…
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Edo Konrad
November 1, 2013
For Israel’s police, settler violence is but a fantasy
The Israeli right-wing likes to claim that Palestinians fabricate the destruction of their olive trees. The police disagrees. Not that they are any good at catching the terrorists. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz When you besiege a city a long time, to make war against it in order to capture it, you shall…
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+972 Magazine
October 26, 2013
PHOTOS: Settlers attack Palestinian olive pickers, damage trees
Palestinian olive growers and their trees were attacked across the northern West Bank on Sunday, resulting in at least four injuries and the destruction of dozens of trees at the height of the yearly olive harvest. In the village of Burin on Sunday, Palestinian olive pickers and Israeli volunteers were attacked by masked settlers, who arrived…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
October 20, 2013
Settlers indicted for attacking Palestinian and his flock of sheep
Nothing can excuse the mauling of sheep or the uprooting of trees, yet this type of vandalism is protected by Israeli security forces in the West Bank on a regular basis. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz With some surprise, we learned a couple of days ago that one of our old files, from…
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+972 Magazine
February 21, 2013
From prisoner releases to Gaza beaches: A week in photos – February 7-13
Some Palestinian prisoners are released while solidarity continues for those on hunger strike, demonstrations target the separation wall, settlements, and school closures, and life goes on amid Gaza’s rubble.
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Activestills
February 14, 2013
WATCH: Olive trees destroyed by settlers in South Hebron Hills
Ta’ayush activists found 10 mature olive trees mangled on Saturday in an olive grove belonging to Palestinians from the village of at-Tuwani, in the South Hebron Hills. The settlers are from the illegal outpost of Havat Maon, a place known for settler violence and harassment. This 3-minute video taken by an Israeli Ta’ayush activist speaks…
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Mairav Zonszein
August 5, 2012
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