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Gazan rubble collectors shot by Israeli forces

Posted on: November 28, 2010
Khalid Ashraf Abosita, age 22

27 November 2010 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza

Khalid Ashraf Abosita, 22 years, is in a critical condition after being shot by the Israeli Offensive Forces in Beit Hanoun, a city on the north-east edge of the Gaza Strip. He is currently hospitalized in Shifa hospital in Gaza City. At 6 pm, more than three hours after the assault, Khalid was trembling all over his body and was still losing a lot of blood. The bullet hit his left calf, fractured the bone and exited his leg again. … Continue reading


Updated on November 28, 2010
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Israeli forces shoots Gazan fisherman at shore

Posted on: November 28, 2010
Ahmed Mahmoud Jarboh

27 November 2010 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza

At 12:30 pm, Ahmed Mahmoud Jarboh, aged 26, was shot in the back of the left knee by the Israeli Offensive Forces while fishing at the shore of Beit Lahya, in the north of the Gaza Strip. He is currently hospitalized in Kamal Udwan, in the neighboring town Jabalya, where his condition is being monitored.

Beit Lahya borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west and the 1949 Armistice Line with Israel to the north. The village’s economical resources are crippled by … Continue reading


Updated on November 28, 2010
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Israel bombs Gazan homes, injuring six

Posted on: November 22, 2010
Rubble in place of obliterated house in Deir al-Balah

21 November 2010 | International Solidarity Movement
House bombed in Deir al-Balah


The afternoon of November 19th an Israeli fighter plane bombed a house in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza. The house of the Dar Shorafa family, located 400 meters from the border fence, has disappeared. At the center of the date palm garden is a 3 m deep crater with the rubble of the former house scattered around.

At the time of attack the residents were absent, but the neighbors witnessed … Continue reading


Updated on November 23, 2010
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Israeli planes hit Gaza targets after rocket fire

Posted on: November 19, 2010
A wounded Palestinian woman is carried into a hospital after Israeli warplanes struck in the central Gaza Strip November 19, 2010.

19 November 2010 | Reuters

Israeli warplanes struck three targets in the Gaza Strip Friday in response to militant rocket and mortar fire, the Israeli army said.

At least four people, three women and a boy, were hurt in one attack in the central Gaza Strip when an uninhabited building close to where they were standing collapsed after being hit, local residents said.

The injuries were not considered to be life threatening, a Gaza hospital source said.

The two other strikes were aimed at targets near the town of Khan … Continue reading


Updated on November 23, 2010
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Israel wages war against Gazan rubble collectors

Posted on: November 19, 2010
Collecting rocks near the Erez Border, Beit Hanoun

17 November 2010 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza

28 year old Ibrahim Yousef Ghaben from Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza, personifies the trials of life for Palestinians and their families, and the multitude of hardships brought by Israel’s siege and violent attacks. It would not normally have been Ibrahim’s choice to collect rubble with a donkey cart as a means of providing for his sick mother, wife and 8 young children. But in Gaza, external pressures force people to make choices that anywhere else would be deemed beyond reason and perhaps beyond imagination.

The shooting on the 10th of November was the … Continue reading


Updated on November 19, 2010
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Beit Hanoun commemorates 2006 massacre, Israeli forces shoot Gazan rubble collector

Posted on: November 14, 2010
Local initiative demonstaters at Erez crossing

13 November 2010 | International Solidarity Movement -Gaza

The demonstration in the Beit Hanoun Buffer-zone tuesday remembered the brutal Israeli shelling in the area 4 years earlier that killed 20 civilians and injured 60. Palestinians of the Local Initiative group and 4 International Solidarity Movement activists approached the wall at Erez crossing and passed rock collectors in the buffer zone some 100 metres from the border. The next day, Israeli soldiers positioned on observation towers near the crossing fired at the workers, shot 28 year old Ibrahim Yousef Ghaben, 28, in his right leg, breaking his bone and bringing the total … Continue reading


Updated on November 14, 2010
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Two Palestinian Stories: Mona Samouni and Dr Mona El Farra

Posted on: November 11, 2010
Majdy performing magic tricks for the Samouni Children

11 November 2010 | Adie Mormech

When the story of the Samouni family of Zeytoun broke, news stations and media gathered to cover what was the epitome of the tragedy that hit Gaza during Operation Cast Lead – the Israeli military’s 3 week bombing and … Continue reading


Updated on April 29, 2011
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Gazans demonstrate on anniversary of Balfour Declaration

Posted on: November 5, 2010

4 November 2010 | International Solidarity Movement

As Israeli army snipers in the control tower at the Erez crossing looked on, Saber Al Za’anin, the General Coordinator of the Local Initiative group spoke passionately about Palestinian resistance on the anniversary of the November 3rd 1917 Balfour Declaration.

“We carry forward the fight of our great grandfathers to dismiss the disgraceful and unjust promise that the UK Foreign Secretary offered to the Zionists to create a state in the middle of Palestine 93 years ago. Here we are, the present-day Palestinian generation standing strong again to uphold the principle of our forefathers and … Continue reading


Updated on November 26, 2010
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Bulldozer driver testimony underscores lack of transparency in Corrie trial

Posted on: October 24, 2010
Rachel Corrie

23 October 2010 | Rachel Corrie Foundation

Voice behind screen says soldiers don’t stop work.

Haifa, Israel – The bulldozer driver who struck and killed Rachel Corrie in March 2003, in Rafah, Gaza, testified for the first time Thursday in the civil lawsuit filed by the Corrie family against the state of Israel, but did so under extraordinary protective measures that continue to underscore the lack of transparency in the investigation as well as the trial process.

The driver, Y.P., whose name was not released, is a 38-year-old Russian immigrant who came … Continue reading


Updated on October 24, 2010
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Ynet: Bulldozer driver testifies in Rachel Corrie case

Posted on: October 21, 2010
Photo displayed during court hearing (Photo: Avisag Shear Yeshuv)

21 October 2010 | YNet News

The bulldozer driver who ran over Rachel Corrie in Gaza in 2003 said Thursday he did not realize he had trampled the American left-wing activist to death until he heard what had happened over the radio network.

The driver, whose name has not been released, testified during a Haifa District Court hearing on a civil wrongful-death lawsuit filed in March by the activist’s parents, Cindy and Craig, against the State of Israel and Defense Ministry. The driver testified from behind a wooden partition to keep … Continue reading


Updated on October 24, 2010
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