.
Lost in recollection
Amidst deep ancient wrinkles,
This is where one should spend
The dying minutes of each wasted day.
Amidst deep ancient wrinkles,
This is where one should spend
The dying minutes of each wasted day.
Vassilis Zambaras: Stopping by a Grove of Ancient Olive Trees Near Twilight, I Think Myself Fortunate: via Vazambam, 7 October 2015
Starlight above olive trees at sunset, Attica: photo by Mgpixel, 4 September 2013
An olive tree, Bi'lin, West Bank: photo by elena martinez, 12 June 2009
Olive trees on Thassos, Greece: photo by Peter Pakandl, 7 September 2006
International volunteers assist in the olive harvest in the occupied territories: photo via Rabbi 4 Human Rights @hreng, 17 October 2015
#Zionist Occupation prevents #Palestinian farmers from picking their olives in #Burin [photo ISM]: image via Abbs Winston @AbbsWinston, 9 October 2015
Fires in #Palestinian olive groves and rock attacks by Israeli settlers injure british monitors #Burin [photo ISM]: image via Fiona Dunlop @ffdunlop, 14 October 2015
Life near the dead syria aleppo: image via baraaalhalabi, 16 October 2015
The #OliveHarvest in the OT has begun! Want to join in on the goodwill? Join us in the groves!: image via Rabbi 4 Human Rights @rhreng, 7 October 2015
The #OliveHarvest in the OT has begun! Want to join in on the goodwill? Join us in the groves!: image via Rabbi 4 Human Rights @rhreng, 7 October 2015
Show the power of solidarity and goodwill. Volunteers needed TMRW for Pal olive harvest @RavArik: image via Rabbi 4 Human Rights @rhreng, 7 October 2015
Israeli settlers burn trees and disrupt olive harvest in Burin[photo ISM]: image via Gabriel Helou @GabrielHelou, 14 October 2015
Israeli settlers burn trees and disrupt olive harvest in Burin [photo ISM]: image via Gabriel Helou @GabrielHelou, 14 October 2015
Settlers terrorize Palestinian farmers in Burin: burn trees and disrupt olive harvest
A Palestinian farmer and English human rights defender have been hospitalized and at least 40 olive trees burnt following an attack by illegal Israeli settlers in the northern West Bank town of Burin today: International Solidarity Movement, Nablus team | Burin, occupied Palestine, 14 October 2015
At 10am this morning, as ISM and other international volunteers accompanied olive farmers who have repeatedly been restricted from accessing their fields, gun shots were heard ringing out across the valley from the settlement above. Approximately thirty masked settlers from the illegal Yizhar settlement then descended the hill and started throwing stones at the group which had peacefully been picking olives for several hours. International human rights defender David Amos, a Quaker from London, was repeatedly attacked with rocks from three meters away, causing two head wounds and copious bleeding. The owner of the land, Abed Musaa, was hit in the front and back with stones and has been treated for lacerations and bruising. The attacking settlers also stole phones, a camera and a bag from the international human rights defenders.
The settlers were then witnessed setting four separate fires to grass on the edge of the olive groves which rapidly grew in dimensions, consuming olive trees and the grasslands between family plots. Two Israeli forces jeeps and two collaborating illegal settler vehicles drove into the valley, took photos of the scene, and then parked alongside each other on the road to Yizhar as more fires were lit by the masked settlers throughout the valley.
Israeli forces then scaled the valley and were witnessed saying to Palestinians, “yes you want peace, we want peace, they want peace,” referring to the settlers. Burin farmer and school teacher Doha and Samir were prohibited from continuing to pick olives on their land, being told they required a permit despite no legal provision to that effect, being within Area B zoning under the Oslo accords.
Palestinian firefighters were prohibited from accessing the fire for three hours, being told that a permit was required to utilize the road to the Yizhar settlement, which has been heavily restricted to Palestinian traffic in recent weeks. Palestinian civil workers, farmers, and international human rights defenders attempted to put out the blaze with sand, shovels, and olive branches but were unable to stop the spread of the fire amid 30 degree heat and rising winds.
Olives are a traditional produce of the Nablus district and constitute 25% of the West Bank’s economy (OCHA 2014).This critical October harvest season falls amid rising tensions in the West Bank, as Israeli forces increase their deployment of soldiers and use of violence in the occupied territories. The Yizhar settlement has also been implicated in the tragic death of 18 month old Ali Dawabsheh and his parents in the Palestinian village of Duma two months ago.
Terrorist settlers attack the olive harvest in Burin: photos via ISM, 16 October 2015
BREAKING: #Palestinians report extremists attack, injure Pal and int'l activist near #Huwara: image via Rabbi 4 Human Rights @rhreng, 14 October 2015
BREAKING: #Palestinians report extremists attack, injure Pal and int'l activist near #Huwara: image via Rabbi 4 Human Rights @rhreng, 14 October 2015
Olive Orchards: Bright Blue Sky: Vincent van Gogh, Autumn 1889, Saint-Rémy, oil on canvas, 49 x 63 cm (National Gallery of Scotland)
