– by Awdah Hathaleen – 15/11/2022 Last week on November, 23rd occupation forces demolished a primary school in the village of Isfey in the South Hebron Hills of the West Bank. Members of Green Olive have close relationships in the region, including with the author of this article about the ways occupation impedes education there. We […]
– by Yahav Zohar – A group of young men walk down a rocky slope. They are wearing white, their sabbath clothes, moving in loose formation towards a shepherd and a grazing herd of sheep, or a farmer tending his olive trees. As they come closer, some of them cover their faces with makeshift masks […]
The tiny villages of the Masafer Yatta region in the South Hebron Hills are only an hour’s drive from Jerusalem or an hour and a half from Tel Aviv, but traveling here one seems to be going back in time. Here, at the edge of the desert, farmers eek out a meager living growing barley […]
– by Yahav Zohar – May 2021 Israel-Palestine is in the news again, there are bombs and rockets lighting up the sky, turning homes to rubble and dramatically toppling towers. Heads turn in our direction and people want to know what’s going on. “Israel is bombing us” say Gazans. “Hamas shot rockets first” say Israelis. […]
