According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), agriculture in Palestine is the largest sector of the economy. “In Gaza, agriculture offers life-saving job opportunities in a region rife with […]
The Dutch government has said it will no longer fund the Ramallah-based Union of Agricultural Work Committees, UAWC, one of the six major Palestinian civil society organizations that Israel banned as ‘terrorist groups’ last October. […]
Despite all the challenges Palestinians in besieged Gaza face on a daily basis, the olive harvesting season still represents a moment of joy and communal celebration. Our correspondent from Gaza Wafa Aludaini takes us to […]
Poem by Timothy McCord Photos by Mahmoud Ajjour From above the valley, Doha gazed down upon her ancient olive grove, cradled in the fertile crescent, not far from Nablus; proud of the beautiful branches: their […]
Jewish settlers today assaulted a Palestinian farmer and his sons in Kisan village, east of Bethlehem, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Deputy Mayor of Kisan, Ahmad Ghazzal, told WAFA that a group of […]
The Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture in Gaza said on Wednesday that the total losses suffered by the sector as a result of the recent Israeli military offensive are estimated at $204 million, Anadolu has reported. […]
Palestinian agricultural areas suffered $1.5 million in damages as a result of Israel’s decision to open rainwater floodgates, Anadolu reported. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture in the Gaza Strip, Israel has so far […]
Israeli occupation forces today opened floodgates near the eastern borders of the Gaza Strip for the second day, flooding vast tracts of Palestinian agricultural land. Palestine Chronicle correspondent Wafaa Aludaini reported that the water devastated […]
The strawberry harvest season in Gaza is bittersweet. This is a time of community, beauty, and hope, of family and friends coming together, and helping each other. In the process of doing so, they become […]
Israeli soldiers today attacked Palestinian farmers working on their land in Beit Ummar town, in the south of the West Bank, and forced them to leave their land, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. […]
Jewish settlers today flooded Palestinian-owned land with sewage and wastewater in the town of Sebastia, north of Nablus, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Mayor of Sebastia Mohammad Azzam confirmed that settlers from the […]
Palestinians who were able to access their land – located beyond Israel’s apartheid barrier in the Salfit area – found out that their olive crops have been stolen and dozens of trees cut, according to […]
Israeli occupation forces today destroyed irrigation ponds in the al-Jiftlik village, located near Jericho in the Jordan Valley, said a local municipal source. Mayor of al-Jiftlik, Ahmad Abu Ghanem, said the Israeli occupation destroyed three […]
Israeli occupation forces obstructed today works for the construction of a water pipe in the village of Atouf, near the town of Tubas in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Mayor […]
Over 60 livestock were killed this morning after being poisoned by extremist Jewish settlers in the town of al-Auja, near Jericho, in the occupied Jordan Valley, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Ahmad al-Zawahra, […]
Israeli occupation forces today dismantled and seized four livestock barns in the town of Nahalin, west of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. The town’s mayor, Sobhi […]
Jewish settlers today stole seedlings and agricultural tools from a Palestinian plant nursery located on the Nablus-Tulkarm road in the north of the West Bank, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Ghassan Daghlas, a […]
For the second week in a row, Jewish settlers from the illegal Gush Etzion settlement bloc opened the wastewater drains to flood Palestinian farmlands near the Beit Ummar village in the southern West Bank, according […]
Israeli soldiers today seized the tractor of a Palestinian farmer who was plowing his land in the town of al-Shyoukh, in the southern West Bank, according to Palestinian news agency WAFA. Hassan Breijieh, director of […]
Israeli authorities have confirmed that they resumed spraying herbicides along the fence separating besieged Gaza Strip from Israel, after having supposedly “refrained from aerial spraying throughout 2019,” reported Haaretz. Last week, “the army sprayed the […]
Israel deliberately flooded hundreds of acres of farmland on Sunday, according to the Ministry of Agriculture. Israel opened one of the gates of its rainwater stores east of Gaza, making the water drown hundreds of […]
Israeli military infiltrated Gaza borders from the northern part of Beit Hanoun town in the northern Gaza Strip and razed agricultural land, said sources. Palestinian farmer shot and injured by Israeli forces deployed on the […]
Jewish settlers today attacked Palestinian farmers in Umm al-Arayes village, located to the east of Yatta in the southern West Bank district of Hebron (Al-Khalil). Coordinator of the Anti-Wall and Settlement Committees Rateb Jabour said […]
Israeli bulldozers today razed large swathes of Palestinian farmlands to the west of Husan village, located near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, according to a local official. Hassan Breijeh, head of the local anti-wall […]
Israel has “tightened its restrictions” for Palestinian farmers trying to access their land located on the other side of the illegal Separation Wall, reported Haaretz. Most of the Wall’s route lies inside the occupied Palestinian territory – […]
It has been a bitter harvest for some Israeli farmers on the border with Jordan. On Sunday, a 25-year-old deal between the two countries that has allowed them to cultivate land there formally expires, Reuters reports. Under […]
The Jordanian government has informed Israel that it will ban Israelis’ entry to the Al-Baqura area in the Jordan valley as of next Sunday, Anadolu reports. According to Israeli Channel 7, Israeli farmers will be banned […]
Jewish settlers attacked this morning a Palestinian family in the town of Dura in the southern West Bank and beat its members despite the presence of soldiers in the area, according to sources. Settlers broke […]
Israeli military vehicles infiltrated today the Gaza border and reached dozens of meters into Palestinian land east of Jabalya in the north of the Gaza Strip, according to WAFA correspondent. He said the military vehicles […]
Israeli forces today prevented Palestinian farmers from accessing their own groves located on the other side of the Israeli segregation barrier near the West Bank town of Salfit, local sources said. Illegal Israeli Colonists Attack […]
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