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Kite flying in Beit Hanoun

Posted on: June 29, 2011
Kite flying in Beit Hanoun

29 June 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza

Every Tuesday morning there is a demonstration against the Occupation in Beit Hanoun, when people march into the buffer zone, demand an end to the occupation, and are met with more bullets from the occupation.  Today was different and yet the same; today we didn’t go into the buffer zone, but none the less we were still met with the bullets of the occupation.

School is out for the summer, summer camps for the children are in full swing.  In Beit Hanoun the Vittorio Arrigoni, Stay Human summer camp has been up and running for the … Continue reading


Updated on July 3, 2011
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My speech for Vik’s memorial in Faraheen

Posted on: May 29, 2011

29 May 2011 | Nathan Stuckey, International Solidarity Movement – Gaza

Many of you here have known Victor longer than I. I will not tell you about what a great person Victor was, you already know that. I will instead offer you a Victor you might not have known, a Victor that fate never allowed.

Victor was a writer. He had “Muqawama”, Resistance, tattooed onto his arm. The same ink that had inscribed Resistance onto his arm flowed from his pen to inscribe resistance onto paper when he wrote.

Victor studied accounting as a young man. Imagine, a … Continue reading


Updated on May 29, 2011
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Amidst long hours waiting to pass to Jerusalem

Posted on: May 25, 2011
Amidst long hours waiting to pass to Jerusalem

25 May 2011 | Shahd Abusalma

Last night, I went to bed at 11 pm, much earlier than I’m used to. I forced myself to stay under my blanket. The room was very dark and no sound could be heard but the sound of me moving in bed continually. I wanted to sleep so that 7 am today would come quickly, but all my attempts failed. Daydreaming in darkness conquered my mind. I dreamt about my travel to Jerusalem, the smell of its air, the view of its … Continue reading


Updated on May 25, 2011
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With love and respect from the bottom of my heart to my Italian Family

Posted on: May 22, 2011

22 May 2011 | Rewa’ Ahmed

Since the day I heard about the Italian convoy that is coming to Gaza I was longing to meet Vitorrio’s friends, and dreaming of the day they would arrive in Gaza. The 12th of May was the arrival day. It was a long day because some friends and I had to wait for the convoy in their apartment in Gaza as we did not have permission to welcome them at the Rafah crossing or even to invite them to our homes.

Words can not express how happy I was when I met those great people. … Continue reading


Updated on May 25, 2011
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Nakba day in Gaza

Posted on: May 18, 2011
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18 May 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza

Nakba Day. The day of the Catastrophe. A day to mark the ethnic cleansing of 800,000 Palestinians from their homes. A day to remind themselves and the world, that one day, they will return to their homes, that they have not forgotten their land. Today marked 63 years of dispossession, 63 years of ethnic cleansing. Thousands of Palestinians marched north from Beit Hanoun to the wall; thousands of Palestinians marched toward their homes.

As we approached the wall the Israeli army barked out its hello. A tank began to fire over the crowd and … Continue reading


Updated on May 21, 2011
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Do you see that land? That land is mine and I cannot go there

Posted on: May 14, 2011
Harvesting grain in Khuza’a.

14 May 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza

On May 8, 9, and 10th the farmers of Khuza’a harvested their wheat. Khuza’a is a village near the Israeli border in the southern Gaza Strip. For three days they visited the fields, starting very early in the morning and picking the fruits of their land. For three days the Israeli occupation forces fired from their automated turret while the farmers continued to harvest their grain. However, they did not allow the Israeli Occupation Force to prevent … Continue reading


Updated on May 15, 2011
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Today the farmers of Beit Hanoun harvested their wheat

Posted on: April 26, 2011
Today the farmers of Beit Hanoun harvested their wheat

26 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza

Today the farmers of Beit Hanoun harvested their wheat. This would be unexceptional news in any other part of the world, but in Palestine things aren’t always so simple. Beit Hanoun is close to the Israeli border, a border where Israel imposes an illegal “buffer zone” in which it claims the right to shoot anyone it wishes. Israel claims the buffer zone is 300 meters wide, but farmers and scrap collectors who work along the border are often … Continue reading


Updated on April 26, 2011
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Vik’s not gone

Posted on: April 22, 2011
Vik and Adie

22 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza

Vik, habibo, you’re not gone, not for me at least. In life you brought the warmth every time I met you, and to everyone else. You did not see it as a duty or a service but it was just how you were, to rouse and stir the best things inside us all for the better, every day, starting with ‘yallah habibo!’

I’m sorry Vik, for a few days there was the shock and the sorrow, which still re-emerges when … Continue reading


Updated on April 22, 2011
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Views from the Jordan Valley

Posted on: April 19, 2011
Jordan Valley

19 April 2011 | Jack Curry

The cluster of Jordan Valley villages located around Fasayil offer a twisted microcosm of the fickle barbarity of Israel’s illegal occupation. Families who seemingly share land, live side by side with no separation except the invisible borders enshrined in Israel’s military law. Yet, as you tread amongst the stones between the close lying villages it is clear where the limited rights afforded to Palestinians ends and the increased terror of the occupation begins.

To the south lies Fasayil, which is classified as Area B under the … Continue reading


Updated on April 20, 2011
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Vittorio, never more alive than now

Posted on: April 19, 2011
Vittorio Arrigoni

Egidia Beretta Arrigoni, Mother of Vittorio Arigoni | Il Manifesto

Translated by Sebastiao Nascimento. Italiana segue.

One has to die to become a hero, to hit the headlines and to have TV crews around the house, but does one have to die to stay human? I recall Vittorio in the Christmas of 2005, detained and incarcerated in the Ben Gurion Airport, the scars left by the handcuffs that cut his wrists, the denial of any contact with the consulate, the farcical process. And I recall Easter that same year, when just … Continue reading


Updated on April 21, 2011
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