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All of the ten people who have just returned from a delegation to Palestine from the Brighton-Tubas Solidarity Group, have their own unique stories to tell. In their two week visit they’ve been shot at, arrested, and discovered that produce grown on stolen Palestinian land and using child labour, is being sold in British supermarkets including Tesco’s.  One delegate said, “Although it was often shocking, these events are part of daily life in Palestine and the people we met were full of friendship despite their situation.”   (more…)

The village of Taybe lies about 10 kilometres inside the West Bank. Stand at the Boys’ School at the edge of the village and look towards the border and what do you see?

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 27th 2007Last night between 1am and 3am the Israeli army raided the West bank towns of Abu Shukheidim and Al-Mazra’a Al-Qibliya arresting 13 Palestinians on allegations of criminal damage and being at an illegal demonstration, they are now in Binyamin police station. In what is clearly collective punishment, the arrested include the head of the Al-Marra’a Al-Qibliya council, a village council member and three minors. The raids follow a demonstration on Friday against the illegal annexation of agricultural lands by settlers.

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The Palestinian village of Al Mazra’a al Qibliya in the occupied West Bank was the scene of a vicious attack by armed Israeli settlers this weekend following a demonstration participated in by the Brighton Tubas Friendship and Solidarity Group (see http://www.brightonpalestine.org/blog/?p=217)

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Members of a ten person delegation to Palestine organised by the Brighton-Tubas Friendship and Solidarity Group joined a demonstration in Al Mazra’a al Qibliya in the occupied West Bank today. Al Mazra’a is surrounded by seven illegal Israel settlements known collectively as Talmund B.

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In Taybe, in the Jenin district of the occupied West Bank, farmers and their international supporters were unable to reach their olive trees once again today as the Israeli authorities failed to open the access gate through the Israeli apartheid wall. 75% of people in Palestine are economically dependent on the olive harves. At each yearly harvest the Israeli occupation authorities deny Palestinians access to their land to pick their olives and directly threaten their livelihoods.
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On Thursday our delegation went to a farm to lead an action, with the help of local farmers to plant some trees. We donated 20 trees (18 olive, 1 fig and 1 lemon) in an act of solidarity and passive resistance. The planting of these trees felt amazing, particularly as there were so many meanings linked to the trees. Olive and fig trees have been grown in Palestine for thousands of years and have come to represent the Palestinian cause and way of life. Further, by planting the trees the farmer was showing the Israelis that he planned to stay on the land for many years - a sign of permanence if you like. We also named many of the trees after friends, people and children we had met and figures of importance in the Palestine Solidarity Movement. It is nice to think that the trees will not only help the farmer but also provide a lasting memorial for the delegation. (more…)

http://www.alhaq.org/
*30 March 2007*

Al-Haq takes the occasion of Land Day to highlight the intrinsic link between land and the exercise of the right to self-determination. Over nearly 40 years of occupation, Israel’s pervasive policies of land expropriation and confiscation, settlement construction and movement restrictions have severely damaged the access of the Palestinian people to their land in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), thereby rendering the meaningful exercise of the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination all but impossible. (more…)

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