With the love of Palestinian Olive Oil growing in the UK, it seems it’s quickly becoming everyone’s ‘favourite’ product. The Executive Director of Fairtrade Foundation, Harriet Lamb recently said Palestinian Olive Oil is one of her two favourite favourite Fairtrade products of the last 15 years. Read more here
Israeli settlers on horseback set fire to fields of olive trees and stoned Palestinian cars in the West Bank yesterday, apparently in response to the Israeli army’s removal of an illegal outpost in the area. At least 1,500 Palestinian-owned trees were destroyed and two Palestinians were injured in the attack, near the city of Nablus,…
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Life has never been easy in Ein al-Sultan camp, Palestine’s smallest refugee camp. Nestled at the foot of the Mount of Temptation, just outside the historic city of Jericho, the camp’s population currently sits at roughly 2,000. Established in 1948, the camp once accommodated 20,000 refugees, but the vast majority were forced to flee to…
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The Herald The first olive oil to carry the Fairtrade mark, produced by Palestinian farmers, will be launched in the UK today, with the support of the Prime Minister. Read full article here
Bethlehem – Ma’an – South African dock workers announced their refusal to offload cargo from a ship carrying goods from Israel scheduled to arrive in Durban on Sunday. It follows the decision by dock workers there to strengthen the campaign in South Africa for boycotts, divestment and sanctions against “apartheid” Israel, a statement said. Read…
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300 Academics have written to The Guardian stating that: ‘We believe Israel should immediately and unconditionally end its assault on Gaza, end the occupation of the West Bank, and abandon all claims to possess or control territory beyond its 1967 borders. We call on the British government and the British people to take all feasible…
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An Israeli-owned cosmetics shop in central London has been forced to shut after activists locked themselves to the door in protest at the suffering of civilians in Gaza. Staff at Ahava, in Covent Garden, closed the salon’s doors to customers at around 11am on Saturday when three activists took over the store by attaching themselves…
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Britain to crack down on exports from Israeli settlements www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/britain-to-crack-down-on-exports-from-israeli-settlements-986854.html
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By Walid Batrawi Al-Jazeera – March 10, 2007 Nablus is the West Bank’s biggest city and the capital of its economy but as with other centres throughout the Palestinian territories, to put it mildly, times are tough. The city is known for, among other things, its soap, made from pure olive oil, but like so…
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