23 June 2012 | Besieged Gaza, Occupied Palestine
We condemn in the strongest possible terms the latest Israeli war crimes committed against our people in the Gaza Strip. We call on the international community and the Arab and Islamic worlds, to take up their responsibility to protect the Palestinian people from this heinous aggression and immediately terminate the continuing Israeli policy of collective punishment.
Over the last 6 days, Gaza City has been bombed by Apache helicopters,F16 and drones. More than 16 civilians, including children, have been killed and more than 70 injured in Beit Hanoun, Jabalya, Khan Younus, … Continue reading
End the Assault on Gaza: joint statement Gazan civil groups
It’s time to harvest the crop: Accompanying farmers in Gaza under Israeli fire
by Rosa Schiano
Translation by Claudia Saba
23 April 2012 | il Blog di Oliva
Renad Salem Qdeeh
Israeli soldiers have already started shooting onto the land along the border of the Gaza Strip. Two injured just in the first two days of the harvest.
Renad Salem Qdeeh, 33, was collecting he crop from her land when Israeli soldiers started shooting, at around 7.30am or 8am. The other farmers managed to escape, but Renad started screaming as she was hit in the head while standing … Continue reading
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
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
Mahmoud, 19 years old, killed at Erez during Land Day between dreams and hopes: The words of his family
by Rosa Schiano
11 April 2012 | il Blog di Oliva
On Friday 30th March, during the “Land Day,” Gaza joined the Global March in order to remember the confiscation of Palestinian lands by Israel which were protested against on the 30th March 1976. 6 Palestinians were killed and hundreds were injured.
In Gaza this event had the color of blood and the sound of Israeli bullets.
We all met in Beit Hanoun to head to the Erez border. Many people could not continue the march because of the blockade created … Continue reading
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
Beit Hanoun: Celebrating the land and culture of Palestine
by Nathan Stuckey
29 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza
Today, Beit Hanoun celebrated Land Day. It is true that Land Day isn’t really until tomorrow, but tomorrow is the Global March to Jerusalem, tomorrow, God willing, Land Day can be celebrated on the land from which the refugees were expelled 64 years ago. Today, Land Day was celebrated on the land that Palestinians have managed to hold onto in Palestine. Land Day commemorates the protests against the expropriation of Palestinian land which rocked Palestine in 1976. … Continue reading
Rachel Corrie & Hana Shalabi: Flowers among thistles of Israeli occupation
by Nathan Stuckey
21 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza
Rachel Corrie was murdered nine years ago by an Israeli bulldozer. Hana Shalabi has spent the last 34 days on hunger strike an Israeli prison, yet she is accused of no crime. This was not the first time Hana has been held in Israeli prisons while being accused of no crime. She was only recently released as part of a prisoner exchange after being held without charges for 25 months. Hana has said that “freedom is … Continue reading
The seen and unseen in the No Go Zone
by Nathan Stuckey
7 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza
Today, like ever Tuesday, we marched into the no go zone north of Beit Hanoun. We gathered by the half destroyed Beit Hanoun Agricultural College and marched north, towards Jerusalem. A Jerusalem that few of the protesters have ever seen, they have never been allowed to go to Jerusalem, it is forbidden to them, just as the land in the no go zone is forbidden to them. Jerusalem and Al Aqsa are unseen. We demonstrated for Al Aqsa and the prisoners. The prisoners too are … Continue reading
We Are With Hana Shalabi and Al Aqsa: Demonstration in the No Go Zone in Beit Hanoun
by Nathan Stuckey
29 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza
Israeli riot police have entered the Al Aqsa Mosque Compound, Palestinians have struggling to protect it for days. After 66 days Khader Adnan has ended his hunger strike, hopefully, soon, he will be home with his family. Even before his hunger strike ended the newest one had begun. Hana Shalabi, a young woman from the West Bank, was put into “administrative detention” on February 16, 2012. Like Khader Adnan she has been … Continue reading
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