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From Attack Dogs to Prison Time, this is How Israel is Trying to Thwart My Activism

– by Sami Hureini – 6/11/2024  This article was first published in +972 and we share it here with their permission. Members of the Green Olive Collective have worked with activists in Tuwani for many years, and attended the same nonviolent demonstration in 2021 that resulted in his current military court trials and unjust arrest. We stand […]

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After Expulsion by Settlers, Palestinians Embrace Precarious Return to Zanuta

– by Hamdan Ballal Al-Huraini – 9/9/2024 This article was first published in +972 and we are grateful to share it here with the permission of the author. Hamdan is an activist and community advocate from Masafer Yatta in Area C of the occupied West Bank. Here he discusses the joy of the residents of Zanuta after returning […]

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Israeli Settlers Rampage in West Bank Town, Killing 1 and Setting Houses Aflame

– by Sharon Zhang – 16/8/2024 This article by Sharon Zhang was originally published by Truthout and republished here in accordance with licensing regulation. It discusses the unprecedented escalation of state violence in the West Bank and the recent mob settler attack in the village of Jatta in the northern West Bank. Dozens of masked and armed […]

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Rulings Don’t Rebuild Houses: The ICJ Ruling Impacts on the Front Lines of the West Bank

– by Anna Lippman – 5/8/2024  This article was first published in Rabble and we are grateful to share it here with the permission of the author. In this article Anna Lippman shares her eyewitness account of life in Palestine’s West Bank as residents face increasing harassment from illegal Israeli settlers. The breaking news alert chimes on my […]

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In Umm al-Khair, the Occupation is Damning Us to Multigenerational Trauma

– by Awdah Hathaleen – 22/7/2024 This article was first published in +972 and we are grateful to share it here with the permission of the author. Awdah is an activist and community advocate from the village of Um al-Khair in Area C of the occupied West Bank. Here he discusses the long term effects of the unprecedented […]

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Even bees can’t escape Israeli settler violence

– by Imad Abu Hawash – 30/8/2023  The Green Olive Collective recently joined an annual visit to the village of Umm Al Khair in the South Hebron Hills during the honey harvest. The village built a honey bee farm in 2018. Last year residents of the adjoining settlement Carmel complained to the army that the […]

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“The power and strength to continue resisting comes from within us!”

– by Laura Saunders – 25/6/2023  This reflection highlights the nonviolent resistance of the village of Tuwani in the South Hebron Hills and discusses the importance of the Tuwani Dairy Factory. It was first published in Laura’s blog “Thyme For Peace” and sheds light on her experiences in the South Hebron Hills with the Center […]

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Shabbat Terror in the West Bank

– by Maya Rosen – 9/9/2021 This article was originally published in Jewish Currents and is shared here with the permission of the author. Following the recent uptick in settler attacks and Palestinian home evictions, we thought it would be timely to share this piece discussing such violence from a Jewish religious and ethical perspective. It […]

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#SalonAgainstEviction Sweeps 10+ Cities, 5 Countries In Solidarity With Palestinians In Masafer Yatta

– by Erez Bleicher – 5/7/2023 Last week an international coalition hosted salon events in over 10 cities and at least five countries around the world in opposition to the slated eviction of twelve Palestinian villages in Firing Zone 918 in the occupied West Bank. Events were held in London, Venice, Edinburgh, Toronto, Chicago, Atlanta, […]

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Our dreams are destroyed before they are completed. New demolition orders in Umm al-Khair.

– by Awdah Hathaleen – 27/6/2023 This article was first published in Humans of Masafer Yatta and we are grateful to share it here with the permission of the author. He is an activist and community advocate from the village of Um al-Khair in Area C of the occupied West Bank. Last Sunday, when I was on my […]

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Developing Coresistance in the South Hebron Hills

– by Erez Bleicher – 7/5/2023 I was hosted this past Friday in the occupied South Hebron Hills for the first of what will be monthly solidarity visits jointly organized by the Green Olive Collective and All That’s Left. These solidarity work days are an opportunity to stand in solidarity with Palestinian villages and materially […]

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