agriculture

A volunteer at a pepper harvest in Moshav Hamra, an Israeli settlement in the Jordan Valley, November 9, 2023. (Dor Pazuelo/Flash90)
Pick peppers, patrol for Palestinians: The ‘New Guardians’ of Israeli agriculture
With major government funding, Hashomer Hachadash sends volunteers to cement Jewish control of open farmland — on both sides of the Green Line.
By Georgia Gee September 16, 2024
Israeli settlers seen invading the Bedouin Palestinian community of Ein al-Rashash with their herd and harassing its residents, West Bank, August 22, 2023. (Omri Eran Vardi/Activestills)
Settler violence is fueling the effects of climate breakdown on Palestinians
Desertification and water scarcity have become immediate dangers to villages like Khirbet ar-Ratheem — and Israeli settlers are the primary culprit.
By Natasha Westheimer October 5, 2023
Israeli settlers with grazing sheep near the Palestinian village of Ein al-Rashash. (Oren Ziv)
Palestinian village fears imminent expulsion as settler attacks escalate
Residents of Ein al-Rashash are calling on activists to help deter Israeli settler violence that has already forced neighboring communities to flee.
By Tash Lever August 31, 2023
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Ashes of beehives belonging to Youssef Al-Sarha, burned by an Israeli settler in Khirbet Widadi near Hebron, July 2023. (Imad Abu Hawash)
Even bees can’t escape Israeli settler violence
Settlers began encroaching on Palestinian land where a beekeeper had placed a colony of bees. They burned 20 hives — and forced the residents to flee.
By ​Imad Abu Hawash August 30, 2023
Israeli soldiers block the path of a Palestinian shepherd and her flock of sheep near the West Bank village of Al-Mufagara, South Hebron Hills, West Bank, December 21, 2012. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)
‘The hardest year of my life’: Masafer Yatta shepherds suffer under expulsion threat
Israel's escalating repression since last year's High Court ruling has severely impacted Palestinian shepherds, a pillar of their communities' survival.
By Hamdan Ballal Al-Huraini June 5, 2023
Israeli army blocks the road for a Palestinian driving a tractor, during an olive planting action in the village of Deir Nizzam, Ramallah district, West Bank, December 15, 2009. (Keren Manor/Activestills)
​The Israeli army is making millions by seizing Palestinian tractors
Data shows the military, with settler backing, is intensifying its confiscation of Palestinian agricultural equipment while profiting from release fees.
By Basel Adra and Oren Ziv May 1, 2022
Chicken inside a chicken barn at the Givat Olam organic farm, near the Jewish settlement of Itamar, West Bank, April 9, 2012. (Nati Shohat/Flas90)
When an Israeli chicken farm has more rights than a Palestinian village
From expropriating our land to poisoning our agriculture, settlement farms serve Israel's goal of forcing us out of our homes in the South Hebron Hills.
By Ali Awad and Awdah Hathaleen March 10, 2022
A goat grazing on the hills outside the village of Tuba in the West Bank, while Israeli soldiers demand a Palestinian shepherd and his herd return home, Jan. 30, 2021. (Natasha Westheimer)
Climate breakdown and occupation are dismantling the lives of Palestinian shepherds
A settlement in the South Hebron Hills illustrates how the Israeli occupation and the climate crisis are destroying Palestinian land and livelihoods.
By Natasha Westheimer April 21, 2021
Palestinians harvest strawberries in a field in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, Dec. 30, 2015. (Emad Nassar/Flash90)
How an Israeli smear campaign is ripping away funds from Palestinian farmers
Israel lobby groups are targeting the funding sources of a major Palestinian agricultural union — by dubiously claiming it has ties to 'terrorists.' Other Palestinian organizations are facing the same attacks.
By Alex Kane and Mariam Barghouti January 25, 2021
"There's nothing like waking up in the morning, picking tomatoes, cucumbers, and zucchini, and preparing breakfast." (Courtesy of Lajee Center)
Home gardening plants seeds for Palestinian self-sufficiency
Palestinians are digging in their yards and potting plants on roofs to tackle the economic fallout of the coronavirus crisis.
By Suha Arraf June 12, 2020
Palestinians march on the railway line connecting Tel Aviv and Jerusalem through the West Bank, during a protest against the plan to build the separation wall in the West Bank village of Battir, November 13, 2012. (Photo by Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
Israel’s top court gives temporary reprieve to Palestinian UNESCO site
In rare move, Israeli Nature and Parks authority supported the petition against the wall; the court’s decision largely hangs on Defense Ministry admitting the contested section of wall isn’t a priority. Israel will not build a section of the separation barrier through the UNESCO recognized village of Battir in the West Bank anytime soon. Israel’s…
By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man January 4, 2015
Agriculture land in the Israeli settlement of Tomer, which was built on land belonging to the village of Fassayel, Jordan Valley, August 8, 2012. (Photo by Ahmad Al-Bazz/ Activestills.org)
Resource: How agriculture is used to take over West Bank land
The Zionist ideal of Jewish agriculture in the Land of Israel reached the occupied West Bank within months of the end of the 1967 War. The agricultural takeover of large swaths of land requires relatively few resources and time in comparison with actual construction or the establishment of outposts, and facilitates the quick establishment of…
By +972 Resources January 4, 2014
Members of the Women's Platform demonstrate in Nazareth (photo: Wehbe Badarneh/ Arab Workers Union in Israel)
From factories to farms, labor union champions rights of Palestinians in Israel
‘There have been no institutions, no organizations for Palestinian workers within Israel to defend their rights.’ A young labor union is resisting exploitation and defending the rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel, with a focus on the rights of women workers. By Alon Aviram NAZARETH – Security cameras and a heavy metal door secure the…
By +972 Magazine November 3, 2012
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