The “You Are Not Alone” campaign – the collective efforts and the voluntary work to support the Palestinian farmers through the olive harvesting season – has once again provided essential support to the Palestinian farmers and continues to be the first backbone of the Palestinian farmers in front of the attacks of Israeli settlers and soldiers during the olive harvesting season.
Tag: Voluntary Work
#SpreadSolidarity: Popular COVID-19 prevention efforts get underway
The initiative, launched by the Land Defense Coalition (LDC), the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, in addition to other local campaigns commenced a comprehensive campaign to provide the basic sanitizers and first aid kits to help protecting Palestinian families in the isolated areas, designated as area ‘C’, near the illegal settlements, in agricultural and Bedouin […]
Wadi al Ahmar Neighborhood of Khan al Ahmar Established
Yesterday night, Palestinian activists have started yet another strategy to resist the erasure of the community of Khan al Ahmar by Israeli occupation forces: Five new structures have been built in the middle of the night just a few hundred meters from the existing structures, as a new ‘neighbourhood’. In order to demolish the structures, […]
Tana – steadfastness and solidarity against the ongoing Nakba
The Palestinian community of Tana has resorted since 2017 to live in the caves in the area after their homes have been demolished over a dozen times by Israeli military. Now, Stop the Wall and partners have joined the community to transform the caves into spaces of resistance and dignified existence to allow the families […]
Emergency Action: Not One Tree Less!
In reaction to the uprooting of 320 olive trees by the Israeli military in Bardala, the Stop the Wall Campaign and partners have organised only 48 hours later an ad-hoc tree planting voluntary day to re-plant trees on the very place Israel has wrecked havoc. On Monday April 23, the Israeli military arrived with bulldozers […]
Tree planting against land confiscation
Last Sunday, members of the Palestinian Agriculture Society in Jericho gathered together with the local community to plant trees in An Nuweim, in the Jordan Valley. The objective of the action was to ensure the use of land and with this to prevent it from being taken over by the settlers and eventually confiscated by […]
‘You Are Not Alone’ campaign: Supporting farmers during the olive harvest
For the 13th year in a row, Stop the Wall and the Land Defense Coalition in collaboration with the Palestinian Farmers Union have conducted the “You Are Not Alone” campaign, the collective voluntary efforts to support Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest against Israeli aggression and land confiscation. From October 10th to November 10th, the […]
Olive Harvest program 2015 – Call for volunteers
Under the slogan “You are not alone – Standing up to settler violence”, Stop the Wall announces the program for this year’s mobilization to protect the olive harvest and Palestinian rights. This year, the olive harvesting takes place in a moment of dramatic escalation of settler and military violence against Palestinian farmers and villages, and […]
The Resistance Continues
Along with the International Campaign to Stop the Jewish National Fund, Stop The Wall Campaign, the Palestinian Farmers’ Union, the Land Defense Coalition and the municipality of Aqraba organized a day of voluntary work to plant olive trees in Khirbet Twaiel, east of Aqraba in Nablus district. Khirbet Twaiel is targeted for destruction and evacuation […]
“There is on this land it is worth living”
Last Saturday, in Surif, south of Hebron, another action of collective olive harvesting was organized. Many volunteers, including local farmers, international activists and a bus of volunteers from Acre, picked olives in burning sunshine. The farmers cultivating the land of Surif, near Hebron, can look back at a continuous and successful struggle for the rights […]