QALQILIA, March 8, 2009 (WAFA)- A Palestinian farmer from Wadi Al-Rasha has had a heart attack while Israeli Occupation Forces uprooted olive trees in his and other farmers' lands in the village of Ras Tira, Qalqilya region.
Five human rights workers, from the US, Denmark and Sweden, have also been arrested and taken to an Israeli police station in the settlement of Qedumim after they joined villagers from Ras at Tira, Wadi Ar-Rasha and Dhab'a in protest over the Israeli destruction of the region's olive trees, a press release from the International Solidarity Movement said.
Residents from the area, joined activists, were protesting the cutting of olive trees to serve Israeli plans to change the route of the Israeli Apartheid Wall in the area. As the trees were being cut, villagers and activists demonstrated, while Israeli forces fired tear-gas at the crowds.
The villages of Ras at Tira, Wadi Ar-Rasha and Dhab'a are completely surrounded by both
