International Women’s Peace Service URGENT PRESS RELEASE Angie Zelter (also known as Angela Julian), a prominent nonviolent peace and human rights activist from Norfolk, is tonight awaiting deportation in a cell at Ben Gurion airport, Israel. Having arrived at Ben Gurion airport on Sunday, 24th October, Zelter was detained and interrogated by Israeli authorities for…
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PalestineToday.org is a project to share photographs and stories of the lives of Palestinians and Israelis struggling to achieve a just peace in the region. The site currently exhibits photographs from the occupied Palestinian Territories. The images are meant to show the daily life of people living in the occupied territories of the West Bank…
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I’m coming to the end of my two-week stay here. I’m trying to round the experience up, but it’s so difficult to do. Actually…as I sit in the courtyard writing this I hear shouts and bangs. My first reaction is to tense up – it could be gunfire, an army or settler incursion into the…
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The last 2 days we’ve been picking with families from Jama’in, a small town of 11-12,000 people on the western side of the road between Ariel settlement and Zattara junction, opposite Marda. The reason for picking with these people is because their groves are situated right beneath the Tappuach outpost above Yasuf, and almost every…
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Permaculture in Palestine In 1993m with the help of Ophaida, an Australian organisation, and experimental permaculture centre was built in Marda. As N, the Marda spokesperson explained to us, permaculture was seeen as a way of reviving Palestinian traditional methods of land management. They were re-learning how to fertilise their lands without the use of…
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Last night we had a fairly disrupted sleep so we are feeling pretty tired. After the destruction of the Olive trees last night people felt concerned that the army would enter the village as they had done following similar attacks. Two of us agreed to sleep near the door of the house so we could…
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Olive trees smashed
I?m fifteen feet up, cradled by the branches of an ancient olive tree and with a fine view to the hills all around, dotted with villages. The branches are heavy with purple olives and the villages are trying to get most of the harvest in before the month of Ramadan starts and they begin fasting…
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