Today on #InternationalChildrensDay, we remember the children of #Palestine and the many, daily challenges they face under military occupation, including harassment, violence, arrest and barriers to education #CRC30
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Fayez Taneeb tells EA Ben about life on his sustainable, organic farm in the occupied West Bank. It runs alongside the Separation Barrier and an Israeli chemical factory - considered too dangerous to be built in Israel. Despite the many challenges, Fayez's eco-agriculture has been tremendously successful.⠀
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"My farm, we want to stay here forever as we have security in producing our own food. As I have said, I have a great wife who always gives me strength. I have also travelled the world a great deal learning more about organic farming and agricultural resistance."⠀
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"As surprising as it sounds, with the restrictions that the farm faces, it is still able to produce all of its own energy and food. Techniques used at the the farm that allow this to be feasible include chemical-free raised bed horticulture, solar food drying, biogas energy production, local seed collection, trading and storage; an aquaponics installation and solar panel powered energy. Fayez was particularly keen to tell us about his farm’s usage of compost tea ‘it is food for all my plants and helps to create a new energy source’, he added ‘everything is recycled so there is no need to buy anything."⠀
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"Some of the farms products include tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, beans and spinach which are all grown inside greenhouses. Lettuce, onions, radish, grapes, cauliflower, asparagus and za’atar (three different kinds) are grown outside. Fayez’s fight has taken him as far afield as the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva and he served as a coordinator for the Palestinian Farmers Union for three years. He credits his wife as being the driving force behind his resistance."⠀
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Read the full blog, 'an Organic Resistance' at eyewitnessblogs.com⠀
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Last year, #Israel demolished more than 30 #Palestinian homes a month. That's one a day on average. The reason cited is often lack of planning permission. So why are Israeli settlers who build without permission provided with compensation, and increasingly given the right to stay, even though these builds are on private Palestinian land? "Increasingly, illegal outposts built on Palestinian land are neither moved nor demolished but instead receive support from the government to become legal, in a process Israeli NGO, Yesh Din refer to as 'regularization'." Read the full blog by EA John, 'They make me stronger to endure' at eyewitnessblogs.com
Photo caption: a Palestinian child stands amongst the rubble of his recently demolished home in the occupied West Bank.
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A #Palestinian child waits at Qalandia checkpoint to reach Jerusalem.
Israel recently spent tens of millions of shekels modernising Qalandia checkpoint, significantly reducing crossing queues through the installation of a biometric card system. In her latest blog, EA Belinda considers the potential consequences this has on Palestinian's freedom. "So, while crossing Qalandia might now be quicker and easier for most Palestinians, locals tell EAs that many of the benefits accrue to Israelis, both to employers and to the State whose control over the daily lives of Palestinians becomes ever more complete." Read the full blog, 'Have a safe and pleasant stay' at eyewitnessblogs.com
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