Category: Features
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Casualties of the last attacks on Gaza: Visit to Shifa Hospital
by Rosa Schiano 15 March 2012 | il Blog di Oliva This morning we went to pay a visit to the wounded at the Shifa Hospital. Most of them have fractures and burns. Hani Al-Qanoo, 15 His mother, Reda, tells that on Sunday morning around 9am Hani and his brother went to school, but there were…
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Beit Furik, Nablus: Family unable to attend funeral for son killed in recent Gaza air strikes
by Jonas Weber 13 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank “We called him Nassr, but I think his real name was Mahmoud,” says Ahmed while we were on the bus from the Beit Furik municipality building. Outside the bus window, the walls of the little town just outside of Nablus are plastered with…
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Burying Ayoub
by Nathan Stuckey 11 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Twelve year old Ayoub Assalya was murdered today. He was walking to school when an Israeli missile landed next to him. It was seven A.M. He is another casualty of Israel’s latest attack on Gaza. For three days now Gaza has been under bombardment. …
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Declaration of Support for the Global March to Jerusalem
6 March 2012 | Global March to Jerusalem We, the Advisory Board of the Global March to Jerusalem, are alarmed and deeply troubled by the continuing repression of Palestinians in Jerusalem and by the deliberate and systematic attempts to expel and reduce the Christian and Muslim Palestinian population of the city as part of the…
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International Solidarity: Photos for the liberation of Shuhada Street
5 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement On February 20th, International Solidarity Movement put out a call for the international community to express their solidarity with the people of Al Khalil (Hebron) and the cause to open Shuhada Street. Individuals from all over the world took part in this symbolic campaign, which came just as…
