Documentation of Israel’s aggression against farmers and the agricultural sector from October 17-23, 2025 Olive trees are integral to Palestinian culture and economy. They also embody the principles of food sovereignty and, by extension, the right to self-determination as affirmed under international law. These legal frameworks recognize the right of peoples to freely shape their […]
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Zaytoun2025: Harvesting under fire (second edition)
Documentation of Israel’s aggression against farmers and the agricultural sector from October 10-16, 2025 The agricultural sector in the occupied West Bank witnessed an escalation in Israeli violations during the olive harvest season. Occupation forces attacked farmers who tried to access their lands and continued to steal, bulldoze, and confiscate farmers’ lands. Settler militias also […]
Zaytoun2025: Harvesting under fire
Documentation of Israel’s aggression against farmers and the agricultural sector from October 1-9, 2025 Between October 1-9, Israel has dramatically escalated land confiscation, the construction of settlement roads, the expansion of settlement outposts as well as violent attacks and raids on Palestinians and their villages. Since in 2025 the Israeli Knesset took over land registration […]
Trump’s 20-Point Plan: Paving Way Into Further Annexation And Ethnic Cleansing
Regardless of how many points are in Trump’s plan, the main point is that one can never trust US “peace plans” in general, and Trump in particular. They only bring more violence, not peace. From Vietnam to Colombia, we all know that. The country that continues to supply military material and more to fuel this […]
Defending the Palestinian Olive Harvest
Since its founding, Israel has used military and bureaucratic tools to steal Palestinian land while expelling the Palestinian population from it. 93% of the Palestinian territory that Israel took in 1948 to establish its state are reserved exclusively for Jewish citizens. In the occupied West Bank and Gaza, Israel has extended the same strategy of […]
Update From The Ground – What’s Been Happening in Palestine?
Walls, Iron Gates, and Military Attacks to Create Palestinian Ghettos] Ahead of the expiration of the deadline given by the UN General Assembly to end the illegal occupation, Israel is tightening its grip on the Palestinians of the occupied West Bank. Israel has transformed the West Bank into isolated enclaves resembling prisons, divided by walls, […]
Forced Displacement in the occupied West Bank
3 communities in Bethlehem, Ramallah, and Jericho under attack BETHLEHEM On August 2, settler militias set up a new outpost near the village of Kisan in the southern West Bank province of Bethlehem. This marks the establishment of the eighth outpost by Israeli settlers in the Deir Alla area, adjacent to the Palestinian community known […]
Settlers Are Burning Our Villages!
Simultaneous and coordinated attacks by settler militias and the IOF on July 31 Al-Lubban al-Sharqiya (Nablus) On July 31 midnight, the village of al-Lubban al-Sharqiya has been subjected to a fierce campaign of raids and arrests by Israeli occupation forces, amid a heavy deployment of military checkpoints in the center of the town. More than […]
Annexation is Already Underway in the Occupied West Bank
Settler attacks in Taybeh and Umm al-Kheir on July 28 Taybeh On July 28, Israeli settler militias, supported by the Israeli army, attacked Palestinian homes of the town of Taybeh, east of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank. Settlers set fire to vehicles owned by Palestinians and wrote racist slogans and threats on the walls […]
DISMANTLE THE APARTHEID WALL!
July 9, 2025, marks the 21st anniversary of the ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), declaring Israel’s Apartheid Wall and its “associated regime”, including the settlement project, in the occupied Palestinian territories, illegal. July 9 also marks 20 years of the Palestinian-led Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights. The ICJ […]