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| Jayous: A Palestinian olive tree is loaded onto an Israeli truck. The driver says he will bring the trees to the Tel Aviv area, to be sold. (Photo: Christoph Gocke) |
In Qaffin: The Apartheid Gates and the Policy of “Permits”
StopTheWall.org 10/30/2004
Occupation Forces continue to refuse to issue its so-called “permits” for the citizens of Qaffin village, located in the northern Tulkarm District. Only 650 people from Qaffin have “permits”, while the number of people that have requested to access their lands which the Occupation Forces have now made inaccessible due to the building of the Apartheid Wall, is some 1600 people. At present, it is the olive harvest season, with people unable to access their groves.The village of Qaffin is situated in the Tulkarm District, with 8000 inhabitants. The village area is some 10,000 dunums, but with the building the Apartheid Wall during the Wall’s “first phase”, all the village lands, minus most of the residential area, were isolated between the Wall and the “Green Line”, as the Occupation ensured to separate people from their lands, annex the lands, and prevent people from a main source of income following the Occupation closure policy that began with the Oslo Accords but was intensified with the second Intifada.The Occupation Forces refuse to let the people of Qaffin, as in other villages, from using cars or trucks through the gates in order to transport their produce, so people use animal-run carts to carry their harvests. In attempts to sell and market their crops, farmers are finding it hard, if not impossible, as the market prices have dropped to a severe low; at times, and once the painful and humiliating task of crossing the gates and bringing the fruits to sell has taken place, sales are an entirely insufficient source of income. more..
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farmer waiting for a closed entrance in the "fence" to reach his land
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Israel: Industrial estates along the wall
By Meron Rapoport, Palestine Monitor 6/24/2004
Israel’s plan of attack is to close off the Gaza Strip before withdrawing to concentrate on expansionist policies in the West Bank. Ariel Sharon hopes this will annihilate the Palestinians politically, condemning them to work for poverty wages in industrial estates along the security wall. -- THE farmers of Irtah, a village near the West Bank market town of Tulkarem, can still see their land. But they haven’t had access to it for more than a year because the trenches, walls and barbed wire of Israel’s "security fence" lie between their hilltop homes and the fields. Now the Israeli army is threatening officially to confiscate the 500 dunams they are forbidden to access (1). The fate of this land is almost certainly determined: an industrial estate will be built astride the fence, funded jointly by the Israeli authorities and Palestinian entrepreneurs. The farmers, left without land, will have no choice but to work in the new factories for a minimum wage set at barely a third of Israel’s official minimum. Tulkarem is not alone. While the fence is a long way from being finished (200km out of a planned 700km have been built), Israel’s minister for industry, trade and employment, Ehud Olmert, is pressing for a chain of industrial estates to be set up along its length. Some sections of the army, especially those engaged in patrolling the Palestinian territories, consider this project as a continuation of the fence. more..
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| Palestinians must wait for hours for Israeli soldiers to open gates in the "security fence". |
In Salfit and Jerusalem: The Occupation Begins Building Two Ghettoes in One Day
Palestine Solidarity Campaign 6/7/2004
PENGON/Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign | London - England - Ar Ram: A Ghetto for Sixty Thousand People -- The Occupation forces last night began work on the Apartheid Wall in Zawiya village west of Salfit. Occupation Forces surveyed the village last Thursday and told the people there that they were going to start construction on Sunday the 6th of June which was yesterday. However, Occupation forces didn’t begin until well after sunset yesterday, to ensure that they could destroy large areas of lands and uproot trees without anyone able to witness their crimes. The Occupation bulldozers worked throughout the night and continued to raze the land and uproot the trees throughout the day. ....Zawiya’s 5500 people rely mostly on agriculture and jobs inside the Green Line as their main sources of income. Recently reliance on agriculture has increased with the tightened closures imposed on the West Bank by the Occupation forces. Once constructed The Apartheid Wall built around the village will prevent the people from reaching their workplaces inside the Green Line, and at the same time will confiscate and isolate what little is left of their farmlands. The Wall will run in close proximity to the houses of the village, and not more than 40 meters away from the village school. After the Wall is complete, the village will have only 2000 dunums remaining out of an original 24,000 dunums. These 2000 dunums represent the exact physical area of the village, without farmland, The Apartheid Wall will place Zawiya, Deir Ballut and Rafat in a ghetto separated from the rest of Salfit district except for a road that travels under the Zawiya Bridge to the north, linking it with Masha Village. The Wall will completely encircle these three villages in order to annex the settlements of Peduel, Ale Zahav and Brukhin. more..
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| A Palestinian farmer protests the theft of his land. Photo: Lokabandhu - ISM |
Divide and destroy
By Alex Klaushofer, Electronic Intifada 12/4/2003
Over the past few months, the barrier that Israel is building to cut itself off from the occupied Palestinian territories of the West Bank has come to symbolise the divide between the two peoples at the heart of the Middle East crisis. Cutting into Palestinian lands by up to six kilometres, the barrier takes different forms along its length - here an imposing concrete construction, there a steel fence and a tangle of barbed wire. But whatever the barrier's form, its impact on the communities it dominates is devastating. In the farming villages of the northern West Bank, what was once a self-sufficient way of life is dying out because farmers cannot access their land. The fertile valley that supported most of Jayyous's 3,500 people with yields from olive groves and citrus orchards is now locked behind the barrier, accessible to some only through gates administered by the Israeli army. A few farmers are just managing to cling onto their land, forced to accept the permit system imposed by the Israeli authorities to get through the gate. Yet even with permits they must queue for the gate openings at the beginning and end of each day. more..
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Wall Destroys Palestine's Olives, Farmers & Agriculture: More from our Archives.. |
Women's Resistance Sparks Confrontation at Saffa
International Womens' Peace Service 2/24/2005
More than 100 villagers gathered early Tuesday morning on the olive groves of Saffa, a small village east of Ramallah, to watch and attempt to prevent the illegal destruction of their land. The city had received no official warning that their land was to be...
New Apartheid Wall construction in two villages near Ramallah - New Israeli measures to isolate and annex East Jerusalem
Palestine Monitor 2/23/2005
Three days ago Israel began building a new section of its illegal Apartheid Wall in the Palestinian villages of Bil’in and Saffa west of Ramallah. Six Israeli bulldozers along with Israeli occupation forces have started breaking ground on Palestinian private property in preparation for laying...
Village of Biddu to Plant Olive Seedlings in Wall’s Path on Monday
International Solidarity Movement 1/22/2005
On Monday January 24 at 11:00 AM the community of Biddu in northwest Jerusalem will plant olive trees in the path of Israel’s Apartheid Wall.The peaceful protest, organized by Biddu’s popular committee, will also be joined by international and Israeli activists.Participants will gather at...
Jayyous Reclaims Its Land
International Solidarity Movement 1/2/2005
December 31, 2004 -- Despite a large Israeli military presence, the people of Jayyous and Israeli and international activists today planted olive seedlings on Jayyous' bulldozed land. 75% of Jayyous land was been cut off from the village by Israel's Apartheid Wall. Now the Israeli government...
Hundreds Join Anti-Wall Protest in Jayyous
International Middle East Media Center 12/31/2004
The residents of Jayyous village near Qalqilia north of the West Bank organized an anti wall protest in cooperation with Israeli and International peace activists on Friday. Over three hundred protestors marched after the Friday noon prayer towards the wall that caused most of the...
Palestinians, Israelis and Internationals to Replant Bulldozed Olive Trees in Jayyous Friday
International Solidarity Movement 12/28/2004
On Friday December 31 at 11:00 AM, farmers from Jayyous, along with Israeli and international human rights activists will replant olive trees bulldozed over the last two weeks to expand the illegal Israeli settlement of Zufim. Israeli contractors have bulldozed 600 olive trees on...
Palestinians Harvest Olives Despite Wall, Bullets
Islam Online 11/23/2004
NABLUS , November 23 (IslamOnline.net) - Despite the increasing Israeli aggressions and a separation wall that runs deep into their fertile lands, Palestinian farmers are keen on harvesting olive groves, which they see as a living symbol of their uphill struggle against the occupation....“We waited for...
Documentary film review: "Mur" (Wall)
By Arjan El Fassed, Electronic Intifada 11/21/2004
Winner at festivals in Marseille and Jerusalem, Simone Bitton's Franco-Israeli "Mur" (Wall), is about Israel's Apartheid Wall. I saw this documentary during the seventeenth international documentary filmfestival in Amsterdam (Netherlands) which opened on 18 November...The documentary starts with the slow installation of concrete slabs...
Photostory: Olive harvest in Lower Yanoun
By Maureen Clare Murphy, Electronic Intifada 11/9/2004
Saturday was perfect olive picking weather for the uninitiated - not too hot, with puffy white clouds passing through the blue sky to protect us from the sun. My friend Bina and I took a "service" taxi from Ramallah to Lower Yanoun, a village near Nablus...
In Qaffin: The Apartheid Gates and the Policy of “Permits”
StopTheWall.org 10/30/2004
Occupation Forces continue to refuse to issue its so-called “permits” for the citizens of Qaffin village, located in the northern Tulkarm District. Only 650 people from Qaffin have “permits”, while the number of people that have requested to access their lands which the Occupation Forces...
Stolen Prosperity
Editorial, Miftah 10/25/2004
The new greedy monster is the Separation Wall, which will detach 280,000 Palestinians living in 126 towns and villages from their lands and olive trees, the 720 KM long Wall will slash out 18% of the West Bank; leaving 2.132.500 olive trees isolated." -- Prosperity is...
Occupation Forces Begin Building the Apartheid Wall in Al Burj Village
StopTheWall.org 10/18/2004
Occupation Forces began on September 5 destroying and uprooting in Al Burj village in the Hebron District in order to build the Apartheid Wall. This comes at the same time that the Occupation is building the Wall in Beit Awa, Deir Samit, and Al Sikka...
News Briefs, October 4, 2004
International Middle East Media Center 10/4/2004
Deheishe refugee camp in Bethlehem raided, one apprehended / Army raid Tal Al-Zaatar area, north of the Gaza Strip / Four residents shot wounded in Khan Younis / Young girl shot dead in Jabalia refugee camp / 4 years old child shot dead east of Khan Younis / Olive trees...
Hundreds of Dunams and Olive trees bulldozed near Hebron
International Middle East Media Center 10/3/2004
Soldiers uprooted vast agricultural areas in the village of Sorif , north east of Hebron , in the south of the West Bank , and uprooted hundreds of Olive trees while preparing for the Separation Wall in the area. A source at Surif Municipality said that several military...
Residents of Three Villages to Block Bulldozers
International Solidarity Movement 9/13/2004
The villages of Deir Samit, Beit Awwa and Al Koun, southwest of Hebron, are loosing agricultural lands to the construction of the Israeli Separation Wall. Over 2,200 dunums of land, that belongs to the village residents and is used to produce olives, almonds and other...
Palestinian Village Gobbled By Israeli Settlements
Islam Online 9/14/2004
WEST BANK, September 14 (IslamOnline.net) – It used to be such a tranquil breathtaking village where leaves rustle in the olive breeze. Now, the grass is no longer green and trees have been uprooted. Israel has started laying the foundation of four of its settlements while...
Torture of Palestinians in the Heart of Romantic Landscape
By Sami Abu Salem, Electronic Intifada 8/19/2004
Just after leaving the city of Deir al-Balah, south of Gaza City, our eyes were caught by the beautiful neighbourhood of Abu Holi. Palm trees, olive and citrus orchards and green houses flank the road. A shepherd stands with some sheep between the trees, where...
Video Clip of The Cage
StopTheWall.org 8/9/2004
Documentary Video, Omar Nazzal, August 9th, 2004 -- A short clip taken from the 27 minute video, The Cage, by Omar Nazzal, which shows the economic, social and agricultural impacts of the Apartheid Wall on Palestinian Society. Focusing largely on the Tulkarem and Qaliqilya districts the...
A People Behind Walls
By Christine Lane, Dissident Voice 8/9/2004
The Wall imposes immense and unnecessary suffering on the Palestinian people.” -- World Court (ICJ), The Hague. The road carves out its path like a long silver snake, slithering through virgin mountainsides, turning olive groves into concrete slabs It’s guarded by armed border police squatting on...
Before and After the Wall in Jayyous
By Sharif Omar, Electronic Intifada 7/16/2004
The verdict is in at the International Court of Justice: Israel's "security wall" is illegal. The US will doubtless use its veto in the Security Council to block the will of the Court, as it has done countless times before when measures were introduced to...
Women Against the Wall
By Fatima Khaldi, Electronic Intifada 7/16/2004
Last Friday, as the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Israel's wall through the West Bank is a violation of international law, I stood with other Palestinian women in the olive groves of the village of Az Zawiya, protesting the destruction of our land...
Israel: Industrial estates along the wall
By Meron Rapoport, Palestine Monitor 6/24/2004
Israel’s plan of attack is to close off the Gaza Strip before withdrawing to concentrate on expansionist policies in the West Bank. Ariel Sharon hopes this will annihilate the Palestinians politically, condemning them to work for poverty wages in industrial estates along the security wall...
In Salfit and Jerusalem: The Occupation Begins Building Two Ghettoes in One Day
Palestine Solidarity Campaign 6/7/2004
PENGON/Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign | London - England - Ar Ram: A Ghetto for Sixty Thousand People-- The Occupation forces last night began work on the Apartheid Wall in Zawiya village west of Salfit. Occupation Forces surveyed the village last Thursday and told the people there that they...
In Salfeet; Israel Moves Ahead In Building the Apartheid Wall
International Press Center 6/9/2004
SALFEET, June8,2004(IPC+Agencies)--The Israeli Occupation forces continued for the second day work on the Apartheid Wall in Zawiya village west of Salfit. Occupation Forces surveyed the village last Thursday and told the people there that they were going to start construction on Sunday...
Bulldozers begin working in Deir Ballut village
International Womens' Peace Service 6/21/2004
Last evening bulldozers arrived in the village of Deir Ballut and began work on the construction of the apartheid wall.Approximately 300 villagers met in the early morning hours to go to their land, hoping to save their land and their olive trees from the destruction...
Nothing Can Come Between Me and My Land
By PENGON/Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, Stop The Wall 5/28/2004
Personal Testimony, PENGON/Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, May 28th, 2004 -- Omar Said -Abu Mohammad- is a farmer from Qalqiliya, and a father of five. Omar's story is an example of how farmers in communities that have their lands isolated behind the Wall suffer to reach their...
Wall Gates, Gate Incidents & Permits in Azzun Atma, Habla and Mas'ha
International Womens Peace Service 4/5/2004
The wall is creating unbearable pressure for Palestinian people. Lack of freedom of movement, already caused by the checkpoints and roadblocks of the Israeli Military Occupation, has now been notched up one more level on a torturous scale. The wall is imprisoning people in towns...
IOF mows down eighty Palestinian-owned agricultural acres in Deir Al-Balah and Khan Younis
International Press Center 1/26/2004
PALESTINE. 26January.2004 (IPC)--- Palestinian security resources reported today afternoon that the Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) has bulldozed 65 Palestinian-ownedacres of agricultural lands in Deir Al-Balah Palestinian city, middle of Gaza Strip. Earlier, IOF bulldozed more than 15 Palestinian-owned acres of agricultural lands in Al-Qararah...
Palestinian farmers appeal to Supreme Court as Israel begins construction of wall around Kiryat Arba settlement
Palestine Monitor 1/21/2004
26 Palestinian farmers have appealed to the Israeli Supreme Court against the proposed route of a new section of the Separation Wall, around the settlement of Kiryat Arba, near Hebron. Israeli occupying forces began work this morning preparing the ground for the new section of...
Unbound Spirit
By Adam Shapiro, Palestine Chronicle 1/18/2004
Latelast year, the Israeli government interfered in the life of the village in an unprecedented way, with the initial work on construction of a wall blocking the villagers’ access to their fields, and cutting them off from any source of livelihood. In December 2003, Abu...
THE WALL: Security NO, Harassment YES
International Womens' Peace Service 12/14/2003
Today’s events at Mas’ha demonstrate that the supposed security fence does not ensure security. Mas’ha farmers have wanted to tend their land for the past weeks, but have been restrained from doing so because Mas’ha is now closed off by the ‘fence,’ whose gates to...
Divide and destroy
By Alex Klaushofer, Electronic Intifada 12/4/2003
Over the past few months, the barrier that Israel is building to cut itself off from the occupied Palestinian territories of the West Bank has come to symbolise the divide between the two peoples at the heart of the Middle East crisis. Cutting into Palestinian...
Agriculture sector harmed most by Israeli aggression says minister
Jerusalem Times 12/4/2003
Minister of Agriculture Rafiq Al-Natsheh said that direct and indirect losses in the agriculture sector since the beginning of the Intifada total $1.22 billion, adding that the Israeli Government is determined to destroy the Palestinian infrastructure of all economic sectors, beginning with agriculture. The Dividing...
"Completion" of the Wall around Azzun Atma Concretizing the Expulsion of Residents
PENGON/Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign 11/30/2003
Some three weeks ago, the Apartheid Wall was “completed” around Azzun Atma with one military checkpoint/gate in the Wall becoming the only entrance for the village, the gate was further built with a five meter ominous sniper-tower. This gate has become a place of...
Barbed-wire Screen, Smoke Screen
By B. Michael, Translated by, Arabic Media Internet Network/Yediot Ahronot 10/31/2003
A lot of “separating” can be achieved with 3,000 km (2,000 miles) of barbed-wire: separating livestock from its owners, olives from their harvesters, vines from their pickers, a doctor from his patients, a worker from his place of work, a teacher from his students. Especially...
Barrier cuts into Palestinian olive harvest
Jordan Times 11/28/2003
JAYYOUS, West Bank — “My olives are withering on their branches because the Israelis won't let me through this fence,” said Palestinian farmer Mahmoud Khorushi, peering sadly at his vines on a terraced slope beyond. Olives are a major Palestinian cash crop and the vines a...
Backs to the Wall
By Lucy Mair and Robyn, Electronic Intifada 11/24/2003
Uncertainty about the future intensified for Mufida Ahmad’s family this year when a mammoth wall ripped through their land in the West Bank village of Jayyus. Ahmad and her husband had bought the quarter acre for $1,400—a hefty but hopeful investment for the family...
The Israeli security wall makes yet another village suffocate
Jerusalem Times 11/21/2003
One day in the beginning of August three soldiers came to the house of Nidal Solyman Parawi, a farmer from No´man village. They wanted him to point his area of fields out for them. Since that day everything have altered for the 700 inhabitants...
Construction of wall in Israel/Palestine amounts to apartheid
By Miriam Ward, RSM, Catholic Peace Voice/VTJP September-October 20
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, that wants it down.” (Robert Frost)Whether called a wall or a fence, the massive 200-mile, 25-foot-high concrete and razor wire barrier, now 90-miles complete, is, according to President Bush, a “problem” and “obstacle...
Living in the Shadow of the Wall (Bethlehem District)
Electronic Intifada 11/16/2003
Personal testimonies by Palestinians about the impact of the wall in their lives: The Bethlehem district is home to more than 170,000 Palestinians, concentrated mostly in the three towns Bethlehem, Beit Jala, and Beit Sahour. The wall surrounding the Bethlehem district is a 15-kilometer...
Palestinian Farmers Face Insurmountable Odds
Editorial, Miftah 11/11/2003
The olive harvest, a mainstay of the Palestinian economy, has been plagued by Israeli settler violence towards peaceful Palestinian farmers wishing to pick their produce. Over the past three years, with the resurgence of hostilities, the farmers have found it increasingly more difficult to care...
On fringes of West Bank Barrier, Palestinian Lives Sink into Absurdity
By Jean-Marc Mojon, Miftah 11/8/2003
MASHA, West Bank, Nov 7 (AFP) - Leaning on his old walking stick, Hani Aner sits on the one narrow strip of porch the bulldozers didn't tear off and watches incredulously as workers finish putting up fences all around his house. As Israel completes the construction...
PM Qurei Calls for Dismantling Israeli Apartheid Wall
Palestine Media Center 11/6/2003
Erekat Confirms Confiscation of Palestinian Land in Jordan Valley -- The Palestine National Authority (PNA) Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei on Wednesday called for the dismantling of the Israeli Apartheid Wall, which the Jewish state is building on occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank as Palestinian...
Palestinians: Israel hands out land confiscation notices
CNN 11/5/2003
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Palestinian farmers in the northern Jordan Valley on Wednesday received letters stating Israel would use their property to erect a security barrier, Palestinian officials said. Palestinian Authority officials subsequently fired off protests to the United States and the European Union. They said the...
Between a rock and a hard place
By Adam Keller, Palestine Media Center 10/27/2003
The landscape seemed highly picturesque: the olive trees dotting the rolling hills, the strewn rocks, the placidly grazing donkey. Such a sharp contrast with the congested superhighways and high-rise office towers of metropolitan Tel-Aviv, a short drive away - a short drive, that is, to those...
Starving Residents into Expulsion: Farmers’ “Protest Tents” Targeted to Ensure no Land Access
StopTheWall.org 10/15/2003
The expulsion of Palestinians from the de facto annexed land behind the Apartheid Wall continued yesterday as some 50 Israeli soldiers invaded the area near the village Jayyus. The soldiers confiscated the identity cards of some 40 farmers and residents who had built tents on...
Press Alert: Tired and Cold Farmers Held Without Food or Shelter
International Solidarity Movement 10/19/2003
Jayyous , Qalqilya Region, West Bank] At 6pm this evening in Jayyous, farmers coming home from harvesting olives were detained by the Israeli military. They are being prevented from passing through the South Gate in the "Separation Wall" and returning to the village from their land...
Seizing Land in Beit Furik
International Solidarity Movement 10/18/2003
Today we again returned to Beit Furik to assist farmers in attempting to harvest their olive groves. Harvesting seems to be starting earlier and earlier, some going to the fields as early as 5 am we believe, to avoid the harassment and potential dangers from...
Seven Farmers Detained at South Gate All Night, One Arrest
International Middle East Media Center 10/20/2003
Seven farmers from Jayyous village, near Qalqilia city, north of the West Bank, spent the night locked behind the damaged South gate of the Separation Wall by soldiers demanding the names of those responsible. The villagers, including one elderly man, were dressed only in day...
Arrested while Harvesting Olives
International Solidarity Movement 10/17/2003
Yesterday five ISMers went to the village of Awarta outside Nablus. We wanted to give support to the farmers during their olive harvest. On a mountaintop close to the village lies the settlement of Itamar. Last year there were many reports of violence from the...
Two Women Shot and Wounded in Gaza, Five Arrested in Jenin
International Press Center 10/17/2003
In the city of Tulkarem, IOF, stationed at the “Apartheid Wall” prevented tens of Palestinian farmers from reaching their olive fields. For the secondweek Palestinian farmers have been trying to pick up the olive but the Israelis prevent them.-- Gaza, Palestine, October 17, 2003, (IPC...
New military order sequesters Palestinian land west of wall
International Solidarity Movement 10/14/2003
Kicks farmers out of their orchards, claiming land is “Israel” -- [Occupied West Bank] Contrary to what the Israeli establishment has been saying, the government of Ariel Sharon has made another big land grab. A new order issued by the military commander of the West Bank...
Separation Wall Gate Closed, Villagers Away From Home for 9 Days
International Middle East Media Center 10/14/2003
70 farmers from Jauss village near Qalqyliah are locked west of the separation wall for the ninth executive day without being allowed to go back to their homes. Nine days ago, farmers were allowed to move from their village into their field west of the...
IOF Troops Apprehend Tens of Palestinian Farmers For Eight Days
International Press Center 10/13/2003
QALQELIA, October 12, 2003, (IPC + Agencies) - - For the eighth respective day, the Israeli occupying forces have held more than 50 Palestinian farmers of Jeoss Town near Qalqelia City, after being held under arrest while being in their farms located behind theSeparation Barrier constructed on vast...
Call to Action: Farmers Get Access To Land "5 Times per Year" - Events Oct. 14-16
International Solidarity Movement 10/13/2003
On Tuesday, October 14, Palestinian farmers from the West Bank village of Tora Shakir near Jenin and international activists will peacefully march to a gate in the "Separation Wall" dividing them from their agricultural land and demand that they be allowed access. At the gate...
Israeli forces detained 70 farmers on the western side of the wall, opposite their village
Electronic Intifada/PCHR 10/13/2003
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns the actions of Israeli occupying forces who are currently holding approximately 70 Palestinian farmers from the village of Jayous, northeast of Qalqilya, against their will. For the last nine days, the farmers have been detained on the...
Video: Palestinian olive farmers struggle in Israeli fence's shadow
BBC 10/9/2003
Video: Palestinian olive farmers struggle in Israeli fence's shadow...
Palestinian Toddler Wounded in Khan Younis and Scores Arrested in West Bank
International Press Center 10/8/2003
The arrested citizens [from Jayous Town, Qulqelia] were trying to reach their farms across the western gate that was set up by IOF after seizing Palestinian lands to construct the separation barrier. A set of Israeli soldiers blocked the farmers' way and arrested them without...
Media Alert: Jayyous Farmers To Pick Olives Near Israeli Settlement
International Solidarity Movement 10/5/2003
A Simple Kind Of Courage: Jayyous Farmers To Pick Olives Near Israeli Settlement -- Beginning this week, farmers from the small West Bank village of Jayyous join dozens of other communities across Palestine in the annual olive harvest. This year, plagued by the confiscation of land...
Another kind of Road Map: Living on the edge
By Christine Lane, YellowTimes.org
The road carves out its path like a long brown snake, slithering through virgin mountainsides, turning olive groves into concrete slabs. It's guarded by armed border police squatting on rocky outposts, positioned every 25 metres along the route. Bulldozers roar, churning up savage clouds of...
Bad Fences Make Bad Neighbors - A Report By NAD (PART IV)
Palestine Media Center 9/6/2003
The Israelis made a fence around the settlement, then they put in a small gate so we could get to our olive trees. They gave us the key and let us come and go for the first year. Then they changed the lock and put...
Face-Off in Faroun
International Solidarity Movement 9/6/2003
Faroun, TULKAREM] Over 140 villagers from the northern West Bank village of Faroun, accompanied by 15 ISM volunteers (American, British, Canadian, Palestinian and Spanish) successfully opened one of the two gates in the Israeli Wall cutting farmers off from their land. The villagers removed sections...
Tulkarem Depressingly Affected by the “Apartheid Wall”
International Press Center 8/30/2003
The wall chews and isolated further 50,000 dunums of 17 villages of Tulkarem, besides the devastation of more than 50,000 trees of olive, citrus and almonds. Almost thousands of the Palestinian families there were underprivileged their livelihood. -- TULKAREM, (IPC+Agencies) The Apartheid Wall (also called...
Facing Down the Wall
By Shareef Omar, AlterNet 8/22/2003
JAYYOUS, West Bank – But we learned that the wall would be built almost four miles east of the Green Line, as close as 90 feet from Jayyous' homes, separating our residential area from our farmland. People burst into tears. Some fainted. With the wall, Israel...
Controlling the gate
By John Petrovato, Al-Ahram Weekly on-line 21 - 27 August 2003
A few years ago, looking down on the fields below one could see evidence of many different kinds of agricultural projects, greenhouses, small dirt roads with tractors, donkeys and families working in the fields. It was peaceful and quiet and had very much the same...
Occupation forces damage hundreds of dunums for fence construction
Palestinian Information Center 8/14/2003
Qalqilya - Zionist occupation forces have been using tractors in the past couple of days to destroy hundreds of Palestinian cultivated lands in the West Bank Qalqilya district for the sake of constructing the segregationist fence. Palestinian sources said that the farmlands were owned by citizens...
BREAKING NEWS, August 13: Settlers establish another outpost
International Press Center 8/13/2003
17:05 Armed Jewish settlers establish a settlement outpost near the town of Howwara, north of Nablus City. / 14:40 Israeli occupying forces (IOF) bulldoze 800 dunums of arable land in the city of Qalqilia and town of Jayyous, and uproot 1,500 olive trees for...
No orders, no paperwork, no answers… just bulldozers
International Solidarity Movement 8/12/2003
Occupied Jayyous - What Happened to Your Promises Mr. Sharon? -- Mr. Sharon has promised over and over that the Apartheid Wall Israel is building “won’t interfere with the daily lives of Palestinians”. He might like to tell that to Helmi, the farmer in Jayyous who woke...
Gate no. 542
By Gideon Levy, Ha'aretz Friday Magazine 8/8/2003
The occupation's latest wrinkle is the separation fence and its permanent gates. A visit at `Open Sesame' time.-- About a dozen farmers stood around late last Sunday afternoon, in the fields of Zita, a farming village north of Tul Karm, waiting for the men inthe...
Photo Essay: Needs Assessment for Communities Affected by Colonization Barrier
By PARC, Miftah 8/1/2003
Includes link to large PowerPoint presentation] -- Contrary to worldwide news reports, the Apartheid Wall (also referred to as the "fence" or "security fence"), which Israel is currently building in the northeast of the West Bank, will not mark the 1967 border, also known as the...
ISM: Calls To Action: Qalqiliya Thursday, Tulkarem Friday, Brit denied entry
International Solidarity Movement 2003-07-30
BREAKING THROUGH THE WALL: Palestinian, Israeli, International Groups to Rally in Qalqilya, Demand End to Separation Wall / DEIR AL GHASOON FIGHTS BACK:The farmers and workers of Deir al Ghassoon near the city of Tulkarem will break through the fence that has blocked them from...
Palestinians Losing Land to the Fence
Los Angeles Times 7/28/2003
RAFAT, West Bank — The red signs appeared one morning on the barbed wire. "Mortal danger; military zone," they read. "Any person who passes or damages the fence endangers his life." And just like that, Mohammed Habbas was forbidden to reach the acres of fields and...
ISM: Updates, July 23, 2003
International Solidarity Movement 2003-07-23
1) Ariel Thre Still Being Held Illegally: Bail Hearing Thursday / 2) Palestinian Farmers Break Gate in the Wall / 3) As Jayyous Struggles to Survive, Jamal Wants to Die, by Ben...
Stonewalling the Peace Process
By Patrick Connors, AlterNet 7/23/2003
Its path is being bulldozed through Palestinian olive groves and greenhouses, surrounding entire Palestinian cities and villages, separating them from their farmland and wells, while trapping other villages in a "no man's land" between the Wall and Israel. -- George Bush's road map for Middle East...
Israeli military slams the door shut
International Solidarity Movement 2003-07-22
Israel promised that building their 20-foot Apartheid Wall around the West Bank wouldn’t disrupt the daily life of the Palestinians.Ten days ago, Israeli military ignored that promise by closing the gate through the wall at Deir Al Ghasoon, denying 40 farmers and 500 workers...
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