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Volunteer in Gaza with the ISM

Posted on: May 21, 2012
Volunteer in Gaza with the ISM

21 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza

The International Solidarity Movement is appealing for activists to join our team in the besieged Gaza Strip.  After being barred from Gaza in 2003 following the murders of Rachel Corrie and Tom Hurndall, ISM Gaza was reinstated in August 2008 when ISM and other volunteers traveled aboard the historic, siege-breaking voyage of the first Free Gaza Movement boat. ISM has maintained a constant presence in Gaza since that time, for over three years of Israel’s crippling siege.

ISM volunteers refused to leave when Israel began bombing Gaza in … Continue reading


Updated on May 21, 2012
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Gaza: Harvesting barley at Erez crossing amidst gun fire

Posted on: May 20, 2012
Palestinian farmers harvesting barley near the no-go zone in Gaza

By Hama Waqum
19 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza
Ten Palestinian volunteers harvested wheat in Gaza’s northern no-go zone on Wednesday, May 16, only 350 meters from where the Israeli Apartheid wall encircles the Gaza Strip. Two weeks ago the barley was cut and gathered and on Wednesday, volunteers loaded the harvest onto donkey carts to transport it for sorting, in the face of Apache helicopters, tanks, and F-16 fighter jets.


The work began at approximately 8:45am in northern Beit Hanoun, and immediately an Israeli tank … Continue reading


Updated on May 20, 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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It’s time to harvest the crop: Accompanying farmers in Gaza under Israeli fire

Posted on: April 24, 2012
Renad Salem Qdeeh

by Rosa Schiano
Translation by Claudia Saba

23 April 2012 | il Blog di Oliva


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 about 800 meters … Continue reading


Updated on April 24, 2012
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The siege in the sea: Accompanying Gaza’s fishermen under attack by the Israeli Navy

Posted on: April 19, 2012

by Rosa Schiano

 19 April 2012 | il Blog di Oliva

To accompany the fishermen of Gaza on their boats, as human shields to protect them, it provides not only an account of human rights violations by Israel, but also the feeling of what it means to live under siege in the Gaza Strip.

Since January 2009 Israel has unilaterally imposed a travel limit of three miles inside the waters of Gaza, which , according to the Jericho Accords, should extend up to 20 nautical miles from the coast. A 3 miles limit is actually illegal.

Israeli navy seals are stationed along … Continue reading


Updated on April 21, 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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Mahmoud, 19 years old, killed at Erez during Land Day between dreams and hopes: The words of his family

Posted on: April 11, 2012
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


Updated on April 13, 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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