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DCI: Child blown to pieces, one maimed and two injured in drone attack

Posted on: May 27, 2010

Defense for Children International

On 7 January 2009, Husam Sobuh (11) decided to bring more food, blankets and clothes to the UNRWA school in Beit Lahiya, where he was taking refuge with his family. On his way, he met with his uncle Osama (36) and his two children, Huda (11) and Luai (9), who were going home for the same reason. During this dangerous journey to their neighbourhood, where combatants were now fighting, Husam sheltered in an empty house with Mahmoud Abu Laila (14) and Luai Sobuh (9). All of a sudden, the building was attacked twice by a drone … Continue reading


Updated on May 27, 2010
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Israeli forces shoot at Gaza bird-catchers, farmers

Posted on: November 21, 2009
Farmer Mahmoud Mohammed Shawish Zaneen was shot in both his legs while planting wheat east of Beit Hanoun. (Eva Bartlett)

Eva Bartlett | The Electronic Intifada

20 November 2009

On 15 November at 8:30am, a number of young men went as usual to the land near Gaza’s northern border with Israel planning to catch birds. Amjad Hassanain, 27, was among the bird-catchers hunting near the border fence when Israeli soldiers began shooting.

The shots which missed the other bird-catchers hit Hassanain, grazing his shoulder. Cameraman Abdul Rahman Hussain, filming in the vicinity, reports … Continue reading


Updated on November 21, 2009
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Gazan fishermen protest against Israeli Navy attacks

Posted on: April 3, 2009
Demonstrators hold signs against the seige

ISM Gaza | Fishing Under Fire

2 April 2009

On the 2nd of April, dozens of fishermen from the Salateen area in Beit Lahiya in the far north of Gaza, staged a march towards the coast to protest against recent Israeli naval attacks.  The demonstrators were joined by the Director of the General Syndicate of Marine Fishers, Nizar Ayash, as well as Palestinian activists from the Beit Hanoun Local Initiative. The demonstration was supported by volunteers from the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), amongst them two international activists abducted by Israeli naval forces last November.

The Israeli navy has intensely escalated its … Continue reading


Updated on April 8, 2009
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All we’ve got left of him

Posted on: February 3, 2009
Abed's pants

Eva Bartlett | In Gaza

2 February 2009

Abdul Rahman Ghraben’s mother carried in a yellow plastic bag.  “This is his pant leg, and tiny pieces of him,”  she said, holding the knotted bag at the handles. Her husband had been explaining how fourteen year old Abed was killed on January 11.

“The Israeli forces had been bombing hard so we’d evacuated the house, gone to Fakoura (UN school which had been bombed with white phosphorous). The first 3 days at the school we had only the clothes we were wearing, no blankets, no food. At night in Fakoura it was … Continue reading


Updated on February 3, 2009
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el Amoudi homeless

Posted on: February 1, 2009
el Amoudi homeless

Eva Bartlett | In Gaza

“Bissa flora,” he said. “Taste it, it’s delicious!”

“It’s used for stomach ailments, and is extremely healthy.  Has vitamins A, B, C and D,” Osama translated for me.  The botanist sat by his tree, his bulldozed tree, and went on extolling its virtues.

“The fruit helps to regulate your pulse and is good for blood circulation,” he confided.

How did he have so much knowledge about this tree, I wondered, and asked.

“I’ve got a catalogue inside my… house,” he said, gesturing at the re-piled concrete blocks, a portion of those which had formerly made up his home.  … Continue reading


Updated on February 2, 2009
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Israeli military shell UNRWA school

Posted on: January 17, 2009

17th January 2009, Beit Lahiya, Gaza: An UNRWA school in Beit Lahiya is being shelled by the Israeli Army. International Human Rights Activists are at the scene, assisting in the evacuation of families to neighboring buildings.

Irish Human Rights Activist Caoimhe Butterly said;
One UNWRA school was hit this morning. Two young children, ages 4 and 8, were killed. We don’t yet have an accurate count of the injured but there is at least one person with leg amputations as a result of the air-strike. There is an exodus of families now who are leaving, terrified, with possessions in hand, trying to … Continue reading


Updated on January 17, 2009
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Interview with Ewa Jasiewicz in Gaza

Posted on: December 31, 2008

11p.m – 28th December 2008: Interview with Ewa Jasiewisz, activist with the Free Gaza Movement, in Gaza, Bayt Lahiya


Updated on January 10, 2009
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ISM Gaza reports from the Olive Harvest Campaign 2008 in the ‘buffer zone’

Posted on: November 5, 2008

This is a compilation of reports of Olive Harvest in Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya, 11th, 13th, 16th & 30th October. Video by Fida Qishta.

ISM Gaza Strip volunteers living in the Gaza Strip have been assisting farmers living in the Buffer Zone areas of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya with their olive harvest during the month of October. In 2005, Israeli Occupation forces declared a 500 meter wide area, deep into the rich agricultural land of Gaza Strip, as a “Buffer Zone”. The entire Eastern … Continue reading


Updated on June 4, 2009
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When Killings Don’t Count: A Week of Israeli Restraint

Posted on: July 21, 2006

By Tanya Reinhart

In Israeli discourse, Israel is always the side exercising restraint in its conflict with the Palestinians. This was true again for the events of the past week: As the Qassam rockets were falling on the Southern Israeli town of Sderot, it was “leaked” that the Israeli Minister of Defense had directed the army to show restraint. (1)

During the week of Israeli “restraint”, the army killed a Palestinian family who went on a picnic on the Beit Lahya beach in the Gaza Strip; after that, the army killed nine people in order to liquidate a Katyusha rocket.

But in the … Continue reading


Updated on January 10, 2009
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