[News] Palestinian resistance hits Israeli fence as farmers try to reach olive groves

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Palestinian nonviolent resistance hits Israeli fence as farmers try 
to reach olive groves
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=911&Itemid=1

(Hebron) Palestine News Network
Thursday, 02 November 2006

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Palestinian farmers continued the nonviolent resistance to occupation 
Thursday by attempting to reach their olive groves for harvest Thursday.

Accompanied by foreign supporters joining to witness and help protect 
against Israeli aggression, the farmers headed to their lands in the 
eastern part of the southern West Bank's Hebron District this 
afternoon. All were surprised, however, to find that their lands had 
been fenced off.

Dr. Ra'ed Abu Yousef of the Palestine Solidarity Association / 
France, said that an Israeli settlement, illegal under international 
law as all are, is in the area. He told PNN Thursday that some 50 
foreigners joined the farmers to reach the olive grove, but settlers 
just to the north had erected a fence to block Palestinians from their land.

Sources from the National Campaign to Reap the Fruits of the Olive 
Harvest, supervised by the Public Committee for the Defense of Land 
in the West Bank and the Agricultural Relief Works Committee said 
that with Israeli soldier and settler violence, both direct and 
structural, conducting the olive harvest becomes increasingly 
difficult each year. Sources in the campaign told PNN that the 
Israeli settlers imposed the fence as part of boundaries they are 
attempting to create on occupied Palestinian land.


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