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Picking pebbles to live somehow

Posted on: March 3, 2010

Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service

2 March 2010

They come by the hundreds every day to sand dunes and rubble sites to sift for pebbles, stones and sand that can be used in making concrete blocks. They lean into trash bins across the Strip, and wade through piles of rubbish scavenging for plastics, metals, and any bits worth reselling.

They venture dangerously close to the border fence to unlock metal and steel rods from their demolished home heaps. They are Gaza’s recyclers, and in a Strip where unemployment hovers at nearly 50 percent and poverty soars over 80 percent, environmental considerations … Continue reading


Updated on March 3, 2010
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Gaza one year ago: ‘I prayed to my god to be the first in my family to die’

Posted on: December 28, 2009

Khulood Ghanem | Mondoweiss

27 December 2009

Khulood Ghanem, 27, kept a Gaza diary a year ago. What follows is Ghanem’s entry from the first day of the war, 27 December 2008.

I finished my work in Khan Younis at 10 o’clock, and rode a car to Gaza City. I reached there at 11. I decided to drink some coffee with my friend who was working in a company beside the legislative council and the academy for police. I stayed there till 11:30, I decided to leave, my friend told me to stay, it’s early, I stayed for 15 minutes.

At 11:45 … Continue reading


Updated on December 28, 2009
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International Human Rights Workers to accompany Palestinian farmers near buffer zone in Gaza Strip

Posted on: May 6, 2009

For Immediate Release:

8am, Thursday 7 May 2009: Six International Human Rights Workers will be accompanying 12 Palestinian farmers Laytamaat area near Khoza’a, east of Khan Younis, in the south of the Gaza strip, as they harvest crops several hundred metres from the Green Line.

Farmers and international accompaniers were last fired upon in Beit Hanoun by Israeli forces on the 17th of April.

Several farmers have been shot by Israeli forces while farming their lands.

Mohammed al-Buraim is the fourth Palestinian farmer to be shot … Continue reading


Updated on May 6, 2009
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Gazan farmers continue their work despite army shooting

Posted on: April 1, 2009
Gazan farmers continue work despite shooting

On the morning of the 1st of April, ISM Gaza Strip activists returned to accompany Palestinian farmers in the area of Khouza’a, east of Khan Younis.  This is the same area where farmers working their fields were almost shot on the 24th of February.  The fields are far away from the Israeli watchtowers and about 400 meters from the Green Line.   Despite this, the farmers had problems when they tried to reach their fields on the two previous days because of the shooting from Israeli troops…. Continue reading


Updated on April 3, 2009
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Shooting at farmers, what gives Israel the right?

Posted on: February 4, 2009
Gazan farmers try to harvest their crop

Eva Bartlett | In Gaza

3 February 2009

I was fairly certain that one of us would be shot today.

This morning, farmers from Abassan Jadiida (New Abassan), to the east of Khan Younis , the southern region, returned to land they’d been forced off of during and following the war on Gaza. The continual shooting at them by Israeli soldiers while they work the land intensified post-war on Gaza. The Israeli soldiers’ shooting was not a new thing, but a resumption of the policy of harassment that Palestinians in the border areas have been enduring for years, a harassment extending … Continue reading


Updated on February 4, 2009
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To the sound of F16s

Posted on: February 3, 2009
Hassan and Halil: two of the 30 injured medics; 21 were killed

Sharon Lock | Tales to Tell

I’m told the bursts of noise that are currently shaking the net cafe a little are probably F16 sonic booms and not rockets, so that’s nice! Last night’s attacks involved seven rockets on the tunnel/border area of Rafah and a strike on an empty police station in Gaza city.

The military said Sunday’s attacks were the beginning of a new wave of raids over Gaza, but did not elaborate… Ehud Olmert, Israel’s out-going prime minister, said that the … Continue reading


Updated on February 3, 2009
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Where is the ceasefire?

Posted on: January 30, 2009

27 January 2009

A young farm-worker, Arwan al Ibrim was murdered by Israeli military forces at approximately 9:45 am on Tuesday 27th January, in the village of Al Farahin, east of Khan Younis.

27 year old Arwan was working picking parsley and spinach in the village agricultural lands, approximately 700 m from the Green Line, when Israeli jeeps opened fire with machine guns from behind the Green Line – shooting more than 30 bullets in quick succession, eyewitnesses report. Many of the seven farmers working in the area scattered, taking shelter from the shower of bullets. Arwan, however, was shot in the … Continue reading


Updated on January 30, 2009
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Gaza film shows white phosphorus from alleged Israeli attack

Posted on: January 21, 2009

Two more videos shot by the International Solidarity Movement taken by The Guardian as proof of use of banned weapons by Israeli forces in Gaza.

Robert Booth | The Guardian

Ayman al Najar, 13, tells how he lost his sister, grandfather and cousin in a bomb attack

The Guardian has obtained vivid footage of the effect of white phosphorus allegedly used by Israel during a bomb attack on Gaza last week.

The film was made by Fida Qishta, a camerawoman working for the International Solidarity Movement, a non-governmental … Continue reading


Updated on January 25, 2009
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Israel admits troops may have used phosphorus shells in Gaza

Posted on: January 21, 2009

Amnesty warns Israel could be guilty of war crimes

Peter Beaumont | The Guardian

Israel has admitted – after mounting pressure – that its troops may have used white phosphorus shells in contravention of international law, during its three-week offensive in the Gaza Strip.

One of the places most seriously affected by the use of white phosphorus was the main UN compound in Gaza City, which was hit by three shells on 15 January. The same munition was used in a strike on the al-Quds hospital in Gaza City the same day.

Under review by Colonel Shai Alkalai is the use of white … Continue reading


Updated on January 23, 2009
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Israel accused of war crimes over 12-hour assault on Gaza village

Posted on: January 18, 2009

Fida Qishta in Khuza’a and Peter Beaumont in London | The Observer

White flags ignored and houses bulldozed with families inside, claim residents

Israel stands accused of perpetrating a series of war crimes during a sustained 12-hour assault on a village in southern Gaza last week in which 14 people died.

In testimony collected from residents of the village of Khuza’a by the Observer, it is claimed that Israeli soldiers entering the village:
attempted to bulldoze houses with civilians inside;
killed civilians trying to escape under the protection of white flags;
opened fire on an ambulance attempting to reach the wounded;
used indiscriminate force in a … Continue reading


Updated on January 18, 2009
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