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Meaningful Resistance to Settler Attacks On December 24, 2020, Israeli settlers uprooted and stole 34 olive trees from the Sumud Freedom Garden in Atuwani, including 24 trees provided and planted by Good Shepherd Collective and our international partners. In order to counter this attack on Palestinian land, GSC returned last week and planted more olive…

On the last day of 2020, Good Shepherd Collective joined our Palestinian partners to tend to the land in an olive grove near Adara. Most of the olive groves in the West Bank are located in the rural Area C, which is under direct Israeli military and administrative control. These places are especially threatened by…

Fight Back Against Settler Destruction Last Thursday, December 24th, Israeli settlers–likely from the outpost of Havat Ma’on–entered Palestinian lands in the South Hebron Hills village of Atuwani in order to uproot and steal approximately 34 olive trees. Of those olive trees, through our olive tree planting program, a program by which international donations are turned…

Last Friday, Good Shepherd Collective joined our partners in resistance on the ground in the village of Khirbet Homsa, recently the site of the largest Israeli demolition in years.The rebuilding was a part of the Faz3a campaign, a campaign that highlights the Palestinian harvest tradition of communities helping one another out during this demanding period.…

Youth of Sumud, GSC start work on settlement buffer zone Armed with about a dozen olive trees, a wheelbarrow, and some buckets, pickaxes, and hoes, GSC members and local Youth of Sumud organizers from the village of Atuwani in the South Hebron Hills set out yesterday to resist settler-colonialism through farming. As we have seen…

On October 7, 2020 two core members of the Good Shepherd Collective headed to the Huwara area of Nablus in the West Bank with members of the South Hebron-based organization Youth of Sumud in order to support the launch of the Faz3a campaign. This campaign highlights the importance of Palestinian unity by drawing on a…

GSC & Um al-Khair push forward  Despite the restrictions of Covid-19, the Good Shepherd Collective continues to find ways to help communities in material ways. While the community of Um al-Khair has successfully invested in developing a community center and playground for the children, the educational facilities in Um al-Khair are in dire need of…

Stop Apartheid Two days ago, US President Donald Trump released his long-anticipated “Deal of the Century,” a proposal that bolsters the position of Israeli politicians like Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz while failing to address the root cause of the issue – settler-colonialism and structural inequality. Rather, this plan further entrenches both flaws by prioritizing…

The Israeli military has confiscated a bulldozer in the Palestinian village of Susiya, in the South Hebron Hills of the West Bank. Essentially disallowed from constructing at all on their own lands, Palestinian communities like Susiya have long been under threat and likely will continue to be until the laws have been equitably distributed across…

The beginning of the New Year culminated in an act of joint resistance in the South Hebron Hills. The Good Shepherd Collective partnered with the Sumud and Protection Committee (Atwuani), Youth of Sumud (Atwuani). The Avigail outpost was erected illegally on Palestinian land in 2002 as means to continue the settlers’ corridor that runs through…