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In a single week, a new settler outpost erases an entire Palestinian community
After building on their land, Israeli settlers attacked and drove out residents of Maghayer Al-Dir, one of the last villages in the southern Jordan Valley.
By
Oren Ziv
May 26, 2025
PHOTOS: Besieged by settlers, Palestinians race to harvest wheat early
Repeatedly harassed and chased off their land, farmers in Wadi Al-Rakhim were finally able to reap their crops last Friday — but only by sheer luck.
By
Georgia Gee
and
Dikla Taylor-Sheinman
April 28, 2025
Israeli settler violence is rapidly emptying Jordan Valley of Palestinians
Khirbet Samra is one of the last Palestinian shepherding communities in the West Bank’s eastern flank. State-backed settler militias are driving them out.
By
Dikla Taylor-Sheinman
and
Georgia Gee
March 19, 2025
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‘I lost my wife and my land’: A deadly olive harvest season ends in the West Bank
Restrictions and attacks by the Israeli military, together with rampant settler violence, left many Palestinians unable to harvest this year's crop.
By
Imad Abu Hawash
December 12, 2024
How one Palestinian spring became a leisure spot for Israelis only
The spring that once belonged to the Palestinian village of Walajeh is now off limits to its residents. As of last week, it is open to Israeli settlers alone.
By
Aviv Tatarsky
October 22, 2019
As it fights for its land, one Palestinian village struggles to preserve its cultural heritage
Wedged between settlement expansion and plagued by water shortages, land confiscation, and settler violence, Wadi Fuqin’s agricultural heritage is increasingly coming under threat. By Arianna Skibell Maher Manasra stood on the edge of a concrete basin and looked down at the empty agricultural pool. Green moss covered the muddy floor where small pockets of water remained. “It’s…
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+972 Magazine
July 17, 2019
Seeds of resistance: The woman fighting occupation with agriculture
Vivien Sansour, founder of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library, talks to +972 Magazine about Palestinian agricultural heritage, the occupation in global context, and the movement to preserve local farming techniques and biodiversity. “I speak about the occupation within a global context because it does not exist in isolation from global trends,” Vivien Sansour tells me.…
By
Joshua Leifer
March 8, 2018
PHOTOS: How Israel’s wall keeps Palestinian farmers off their land
Palestinian farmers, along with Israeli and international activists, demonstrate in front of a military gate in the northern West Bank, calling to relax Israeli restrictions on access to their land. Photos and text by Ahmad Al-Bazz and Haidi Motola / Activestills.org Approximately 100 Palestinian farmers protested on Sunday morning in front of an Israeli military gate in…
By
Activestills
July 10, 2017
Israeli planes spray herbicides inside Gaza for fourth time this year
Israeli planes have been reported spraying herbicides over land inside the Gaza Strip on four occasions in 2017, including twice in the last two days. Israeli planes sprayed herbicides inside the Gaza Strip for the second day running on Wednesday and the fourth time this year, according to local farmers and Israeli rights NGO Gisha. A video…
By
Natasha Roth-Rowland
April 5, 2017
Settler violence and IDF collusion deny Palestinians the fruits of their harvest
Stolen fruit, destroyed trees and harassment by the army and settlers wreak havoc with the yearly olive harvest, an essential source of subsistence for West Bank Palestinians. By Yossi Gurvitz, for Yesh Din “The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up” (Deuteronomy 28:33) “I’ve been…
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+972 Magazine
December 9, 2016
PHOTOS: When Israel decides to cut Palestinian farmers off from their land
The Israeli army decided last week to close the main gateway Palestinian farmers from four villages use to access their lands — which Israel cut them off from with the separation fence. After a protest the army re-opened the gate, but the incident shows how Israel controls every aspect of Palestinian life. Photos and Text:…
By
Activestills
May 19, 2015
PHOTOS: Israeli authorities destroy Palestinian family’s valley of fruit trees
Israeli authorities destroyed some 1,500 fruit trees on a Palestinian farm near Bethlehem. The family has ownership documentation dating back to the Ottoman period. Text and photos by: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org The sign at the entrance to the Nassar family farm reads, “We refuse to be enemies.” In 2000, they named their land Tent of…
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Activestills
June 6, 2014
Creeping dispossession destroys Palestinian agrarian communities
The existence of the illegal Adei Ad settlement outpost harms Palestinians not just physically but also financially, and leads to the abandonment of Palestinian villages. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz The Israeli media stopped, in recent years, paying attention to assaults of Palestinians by settlers, unless it is a particularly severe case, such…
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+972 Magazine
April 28, 2013
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