All of us at Zaytoun would like to say a big thank you to the muslim community in High Wycombe and the Wycombe Islamic Society With the help of Zafar, a volunteer, they’ve raised over £1000 in ‘Zakat’ donations to help the Al-Zaytouna farmers cooperative in Palestine puchase essential basic tools. Under Islamic law, Zakat…
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The Zaytoun team are now in Palestine helping farmers with the annual olive harvest, this usually involves picking olives, carrying olives and escorting families & helping to carry their olives back to the villages, often through Israeli security checkpoints and settlements. Keep an eye on the journal for our reports from Palestine.
We’d like to thank Oxfam Ireland for stocking Zaytoun olive oil.
This Sunday the Bil’in villagers harvested their olive groves which are now being torn up by the construction of the Wall. The annual harvest of olives is both vital to the livelihood of the Bil’in community, and being made increasingly difficult to perform. Israel demands that olive farmers in the West Bank apply to them…
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