In response to the Israeli military’s arrest of Palestinian farmer and land defender Ghassan Najjar during a pre-dawn raid on the village of Burin south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, on 27 October, Erika Guevara Rosas, Amnesty International’s Senior Director for Research, Policy, Advocacy and Campaigns, said:

“Israeli authorities must immediately release Ghassan Najjar who was arrested solely because of his peaceful activism to protect the olive harvest season in Burin. Israeli intelligence agents had explicitly threatened Ghassan Najjar, co-founder of Burin’s Land and Farming Agricultural Cooperative, that he would be arrested if he did not stop his activism. His activism includes community organizing, supporting mutual aid among farmers through the cooperative, organizing an annual Kite Festival in the village and leading numerous cultural initiatives.…