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Thanksgiving in Gaza

Posted on: November 26, 2011
Layla and her daughters with the turkey in Faraheen (Photo: Radhika Sainath, Notes from Behind the Blockade) - Click here for more images

by Radhika Sainath

25 November 2011 | Notes from Behind the Blockade

It all started with a simple question from Jabar, a Palestinian farmer from Faraheen, during Eid al-Adha, the festival of sacrifice.

“Is there an American eid (holiday) where you slaughter an animal?” he asked Nathan, a colleague here in Gaza, a few weeks ago.

Thanksgiving and turkeys came to mind.

And so, I found myself celebrating “Thanksgiving,” Gazan-style, this afternoon in the small, southern Gazan village.

Nathan painstakingly put together a variety of ingredients over … Continue reading


Updated on November 30, 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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Three protests in Gaza: Israeli sniper shoots Palestinian man, leaving him in critical condition

Posted on: September 27, 2010
Three protests in Gaza: Israeli sniper shoots Palestinian man, leaving him in critical condition

A 20-year-old Palestinian man, Sliman Abu Hanza, is in a critical condition in hospital after being shot in the abdomen with a ‘dum dum’ bullet at a demonstration in Al-Faraheen, Khan Younis, on Sunday.

The injury was inflicted during one of three non-violent demonstrations which took place on Sunday; in Beit Hanoun, Maghazi and Faraheen near Khan Younis – four members of the International Solidarity Movement also attended. The explode-on-impact ‘dum-dum’ bullet which hit Abu Hanza is the same type that was shot into the leg of Ahmed Deeb, 20, during a … Continue reading


Updated on November 23, 2010
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Palestinian farmer boy injured by shrapnel

Posted on: July 18, 2009

ISM Gaza | Farming Under Fire

18 July 2009

Interview with a 16 year old Palestinian farmer who got injured by shrapnel, above his eye, on the 15th of July while working about 500 meters from the Green Line between the areas of Abassan Jedida and Al Faraheen, in Gaza Strip.

The interview was taken the next night, after the boy got out of the European Hospital in Khan Younis and returned to his house. Although that day there … Continue reading


Updated on July 18, 2009
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Farmers fired upon by Israeli forces in Al Faraheen, Gaza

Posted on: April 10, 2009

ISM Gaza | Farming Under Fire

8 April 2009

This morning, the farmers from Al-Faraheen in the Gaza Strip persisted with their efforts to harvest the year’s crop of lentils. Volunteers with the International Solidarity Movement, and a camera crew from Press TV accompanied the farmers as they set out to work in a field about 300m from the border.

Before the farmers reached the field, an Israeli jeep stopped next to the border fence several hundred metres away. A number of shots were fired in … Continue reading


Updated on April 16, 2009
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Israeli forces shoot at farmers in Al Faraheen

Posted on: April 8, 2009

ISM Gaza | Farming Under Fire

This morning, the farmers from Al-Faraheen in the Gaza Strip persisted with their efforts to harvest the year’s crop of lentils. Volunteers with the International Solidarity Movement, and a camera crew from Press TV accompanied the farmers as they set out to work in a field about 300m from the border.

Before the farmers reached the field, an Israeli jeep stopped next to the border fence several hundred metres away. A number of shots were fired in … Continue reading


Updated on April 8, 2009
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Human rights workers to accompany farmers in Gaza

Posted on: March 18, 2009

For Immediate Release

8am, Thursday 19th March 2009: Seven international Human Rights Workers (HRWs) will be accompanying Palestinian farmers in Al Basan Kabira, Al Faraheen, East of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip.
HRWs from Britain, Australia and Canada will be accompanying farmers on their lands 500m from the ‘Green Line’ as they attempt to retrieve irrigation pipes.

Palestinian farmers have been repeatedly been shot at by Israeli forces while working on their agricultural lands within 1km from the ‘Green Line’.

On the 18th February 2009 international HRWs witnessed the shooting of 20 year old Mohammad Il Ibrahim by Israeli forces. Mohammad … Continue reading


Updated on March 19, 2009
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International Human Rights Activists to continue accompaniment work with farmers in Al Faraheen

Posted on: February 6, 2009

6th February 2009

At 9am on Saturday 7th February 2009, 10 international Human Rights Activists will be accompanying Palestinian farmers in Al Faraheen village, east of Khan Younis. Farmers and international accompaniers were fired upon by Israeli Forces in the same area on Thursday, February 5th.

International Human Rights Activists will accompany Yusef Abu Shaheen, a Palestinian farmer, in Abassan Jedida of Al Faraheen village. Shaheen’s land is approximately 500 metres from the ‘Green Line’ and 5 kilometres south of Kissufim (Al Qarara) Crossing.

“We are accompanying these farmers to harvest their crops because they have a right … Continue reading


Updated on February 6, 2009
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Israeli forces open fire on Palestinian farmers and internationals in Al Faraheen

Posted on: February 6, 2009
Israeli forces open fire on Palestinian farmers and internationals in Al Faraheen

5th February 2009

Israeli soldiers open fire on Palestinian farmers and international Human Rights Workers twice in three days

Israeli soldiers again opened fire on Palestinian farmers and international Human Rights Workers (HRWs) on Thursday 5th February, as they attempted to harvest parsley in agricultural land near the Green Line.

Returning to farm-land of Al Faraheen village, in the Abassan Jedida area, east of Khan Younis, where soldiers had opened fire on Tuesday 3rd February, farmers and HRWs were able … Continue reading


Updated on February 9, 2009
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