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International human rights workers to accompany Palestinian farmers in Gazan ‘buffer zone’

For Immediate Release:

Sunday, 24 May 2009: Five international human rights workers from the ISM-Gaza Strip will be accompanying 10 farmers from Khoza’a as they harvest crops several hundred metres from the Green Line.

In the morning, human rights workers will join Palestinian farmers in Khoza’a village, located east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, to farm land 300-350 meters from the ‘Green Line’.

Farmers and international accompaniers were last fired upon in Letaemat, Gaza by Israeli forces on the 9th of May.

Several farmers have been shot by Israeli forces while farming their lands.