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Commemoration of Tom Hurndall’s shooting

Posted on: April 23, 2009
Tom Hurndall playing football in Amman refugee camp

22 April 2009

April 11th 2009 marked the 6th anniversary of the shooting of British ISM activist Tom Hurndall by Israeli occupation soldiers that lead to his death 9 months later. It wasn’t possible for ISM volunteers to enter the Gaza Strip for several years due to the clampdown of the Erez crossing, so this was the first time ISM activists managed to commemorate the anniversary in Gaza itself.

Last October, in the occasion of the release of a new television drama based on the killing in Gaza of Tom Hurndall (’The Shooting Of Thomas Hurndall’, Channel Four Television), Amnesty International has … Continue reading


Updated on April 23, 2009
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‘I was born Palestinian’

Posted on: April 15, 2009
Laila El-Haddad and family.

Laila El-Haddad | A Mother from Gaza

14 April 2009

“Its not very comfortable in there is it?” said the stony faced official, cigarette smoke forming a haze around his gleaming oval head.

“Its OK. We’re fine” I replied wearily, delirious after being awake for a straight period of 30 hours.

“You could be in there for days you know. For weeks. Indefinitely. “So, tell me, you are taking a plane tomorrow morning to the US?”

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It was our journey home that began with the standard packing frenzy: squeezing … Continue reading


Updated on April 16, 2009
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The Independent: A brave man who stood alone. If only the world had listened to him

Posted on: March 31, 2009
The Independent: A brave man who stood alone. If only the world had listened to him

Robert Fisk

I don’t know if I met Tom Hurndall. He was one of a bunch of “human shields” who turned up in Baghdad just before the Anglo-American invasion in 2003, the kind of folk we professional reporters make fun of. Tree huggers, that kind of thing. Now I wish I had met him because – looking back over the history of that terrible war – Hurndall’s journals (soon to be published) show a remarkable man of remarkable principle. “I may not be a human shield,” he wrote at 10.26 on … Continue reading


Updated on March 31, 2009
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Six years without Rachel – We still demand justice

Posted on: March 18, 2009
Remembering Rachel Corrie in Gaza

16th March, 2009 | ISM Gaza Strip

Every year we remember 16th March. We remember a kind, insightful, talented person committed to the plight of the Palestinian people, who genuinely had the courage of her convictions. Her name was Rachel Corrie. This year, the anniversary of her death comes in the wake of Israel’s massive assault on the Gaza Strip. We believe Rachel would want the world to remember the 1,400 Palestinians killed before she is remembered herself. Now, six long years after her death, … Continue reading


Updated on March 20, 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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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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“It was the hardest day of our lives”

Posted on: January 16, 2009
50 homes bulldozed in Khoza’a

Wednesday 14th January, 2009

In an escalation of the ground offensive in the south of Gaza, Israeli forces terrorised the population of Khoza’a, a small rural community east of Khan Younis. They entered the area at about 3.00am on the morning of Tuesday 13th January in an incursion lasting until Tuesday evening. This follows heavy missile strikes on Khoza’a in recent days, notably on Saturday 10th January.

According to a local municipality official, approximately 50 homes were bulldozed along with farmland, olive and citrus groves. The scent … Continue reading


Updated on January 16, 2009
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UNRWA emergency shelters and bombed schools

Posted on: January 13, 2009
UNRWA school

Across Gaza, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is setting up emergency shelters in its schools. Despite two such shelters being cynically targeted by Israeli shelling in northern Gaza last week, many families still seek refuge in UNRWA schools simply because they have nowhere else to go. The massacre on 6th January at the Al Fakhoura School and a second school in the Jabaliya refugee camp north-east of Gaza City killed nearly 50 and injured dozens more.

Two UNRWA schools in Rafah, the ‘A’ and ‘B’ Boys Preparatory Schools close … Continue reading


Updated on January 15, 2009
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European MEPs enter Gaza

Posted on: January 11, 2009
European MEPs enter Gaza

Luisa Morgantini, Vice President of the European Parliament, and the MEPs delegation entered to Gaza Strip, today 11th January 2009, through Rafah border crossing.

The delegation – composed by 8 MEPs belonging to different political groups and by one Member of the Italian Senate – will stay in Gaza from Saturday 10 to Tuesday 13 January, when the MEPs will come back to Strasbourg to report back about the situation to the Plenary session of the EU Parliament and they will hold a press conference.

In Gaza the … Continue reading


Updated on January 11, 2009
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Israeli bombardment devastates Rafah

Posted on: January 8, 2009

The Israeli bombing campaign in Gaza has been severe and targeted mainly at civilian areas, leaving scores of people homeless. ISM volunteers filmed this video in Rafah showing the aftermath of the bombing. The translation was done by The Guardian.


Updated on May 17, 2013
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