Thursday, October 24, 2024

Gaza war, settler attacks ruin Palestinian olive harvest

Middle East
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Issued on: 24/10/2024 - 
Video by: Juliette MONTILLY

After a year of relentless war, Gaza's olive harvest is set to suffer, while in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian farmers fear to tend their groves due to settler attacks. "Day after day, the settlers repeat their attacks on the village of Burqa every day. Every day they enter and attack, cutting down trees, burning trees, and picking their fruit," says Sael Kanaan, council head of Burqa, a village east of Ramallah.





We have documented cases of sexual violence in Israeli prisons: Palestinian activist

Issued on: 24/10/202

Video by: Sharon GAFFNEY

Palestinian women's rights activist, Joharah Baker, is among five women who are at the UN in New York this week to speak about gendered violence in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. They claim Israeli forces are using sexual violence as a 'weapon of genocide'. Joharah Baker tells FRANCE 24 that they have documented cases of sexual violence against women in Israeli prisons from Gaza and the West Bank.

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