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Tel Rumeida: Child settler violence through the lenses of an international activist

Posted on: May 11, 2012
Tel Rumeida: Child settler violence through the lenses of an international activist

by Sunny

5 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

A group of approximately 10 to 15 soldiers displayed their ineptitude in dealing with a group of rowdy settler children, roughly between the ages of 8 to 14, who were attemptng to enter Tel Rumeida.
It was an embarrassing episode for the Israeli occupation soldiers who paid more attention to ISM volunteers who were simply filming the situation.  When a settler later confronted me, violently grabbing for my camera, the soldier’s attempts to restrain him … Continue reading


Updated on May 12, 2012
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Wheat farmers under fire in Gaza: We must continue to work our land

Posted on: April 24, 2012
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by Nathan Stuckey

23 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza


Today we went farming with the family of Ahmed Saadat.  We arrived in Khuzaa at about 7 AM and met Ahmed. He told us that the Israeli’s had already shot at his family when they went to their land to begin work.  We went to the land, which lies 300 meters from the border and directly on the buffer zone.  You immediately know the buffer zone, nothing is planted in it, no trees are left, and everything has been … Continue reading


Updated on April 24, 2012
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Gaza: The march for prisoners within a prison

Posted on: April 18, 2012
Gaza: The march for prisoners within a prison

by Nathan Stuckey
18 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza

April 17th is Palestinain Prisoners Day.  All over Palestine demonstrations were held in solidarity with the approximately 5,000 prisoners still held in the occupations jails.  Bait Hanoun was no exception, this week the weekly demonstration against the occupation and the no go zones were in support of the prisoners.  The residents of the prison that is Gaza demonstrated in solidarity with the residents of the other Israeli prisons.
We gathered on … Continue reading


Updated on April 21, 2012
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Beit Hanoun remembers Vittorio: “When he spoke you had to listen”

Posted on: April 11, 2012
Beit Hanoun remembers Vittorio: “When he spoke you had to listen”

by Nathan Stuckey
11 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza
One year ago Vittorio Arrigoni was murdered.  Since coming to Gaza, Vik, as everyone knew him, had been a regular at Beit Hanoun’s weekly demonstrations against the no go zone and the occupation.  Vik had devoted his life to ending the occupation.  Sadly, he did not live to see his goal accomplished.  The people of Beit Hanoun have not given up though, they continue to demonstrate, they continue to risk their lives every Tuesday in demonstrations against the occupation.  This week, the demonstration was in … Continue reading


Updated on April 12, 2012
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Children’s Day in Khan Younis

Posted on: April 10, 2012
Children’s Day in Khan Younis

by Nathan Stuckey 
10 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza

Poverty is pervasive in Gaza.  After 44 years of occupation, and six years of siege the economy is in tatters.  Exporting anything is basically impossible, farming is crippled by the no go zones which encircle Gaza leaving over 30% of agricultural land off limits, the fishing industry has been devastated by the 3 mile limit on fishing imposed by Israel.  Gaza survives on the tunnels.  All this being said, as a Palestinian … Continue reading


Updated on April 12, 2012
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Neither threats nor murders will stop our demonstrations

Posted on: April 4, 2012

by Nathan Stuckey

4 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza

Over the weekend Israeli planes dropped flyers over Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia warning that anyone who approached within three hundred meters of the border would be shot.  It is not as though the people don’t know of this policy.

As the following conversation between Israeli soldiers makes clear, this has been policy for many years.  The soldiers in this conversation are discussing the murder of a thirteen year old girl, Iman Darweesh Al Hams. She was murdered in October 2004 on her way to school. The chilling transcript relating her murder … Continue reading


Updated on April 4, 2012
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They shoot the youth don’t they?

Posted on: April 4, 2012
They shoot the youth don’t they? - Click here for more photos. Courtesy Johnny Bravo, 2012

by Johnny Bravo
4 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza
On March 30, 1976, the Palestinian people declared a general strike and demonstrated against the Israeli confiscation of thousands of acres of land in the Galilee. The Israeli’s responded with violence, killing six unarmed Palestinian demonstrators and injuring hundreds. Every year Land Day is commemorated in Palestine in remembrance of those who rise up to protect their land.
On this Land Day, I was at Erez Crossing. Several hundred youth had managed to find their way around the Hamas policemen blocking the roads leading … Continue reading


Updated on April 6, 2012
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Land Day commemoration in Al Huda School, Khan Yunis

Posted on: April 1, 2012
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by Nathan Stuckey
1 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza
Al Huda School is a small, private primary school in Khan Yunis.  It serves about 400 students, a quarter of them orphans.  The school isn’t in the center of town, it is more out in the countryside. You look out the windows over fields of wheat and groves of olives.  The countryside is reflected in the building, nicely painted white and green with a large outdoor area for the children to play.  It has smaller classes than most schools in Gaza, only 20 to 25 … Continue reading


Updated on April 4, 2012
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The march from Erez to the iron doors of Al Aqsa

Posted on: March 30, 2012
The march from Erez to the iron doors of Al Aqsa

by Nathan Stuckey

30 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza
Sometimes, the more things change the more they stay the same.  On March 30, 1976 during protests against the confiscation of Palestinian land, Israel killed six protesters, injured over one hundred and arrested hundreds more.  This was the first Land Day.  Every year for the last thirty six years Palestinians have commemorated the heroism of those protesters and reiterated their attachment to their lands.  This year was no different.  This year protests occurred in over eighty countries, thousands of people tried to march to Jerusalem.  Almost everywhere whoever was … Continue reading


Updated on March 31, 2012
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Land Day: From Gaza to Sakhnin we are all united with Bil’in

Posted on: March 29, 2012
Photo courtesy Hussein Amody, 2012

by Nathan Stuckey
27 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza


Thirty six years ago on March 30th 1976 demonstrations against the confiscation of Palestinian land by the Israeli government spread throughout Palestine.  Six Palestinians were killed, over a hundred wounded, and hundreds more arrested.  Land day was one of the first large mobilizations of Palestinians with 1948 Palestine.  This year, on Land Day, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from all over the world will march towards Jerusalem.  Today, in Beit Hanoun, Land Day came early.  … Continue reading


Updated on March 29, 2012
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