Category: Features
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Israel bombs Gazan homes, injuring six
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…
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High-velocity tear gas canisters and skunk water used in assault on Nabi Saleh demonstration; 18-year-old to undergo surgery
20 November 2010 | International Solidarity Movement Yesterday, 19th November, the weekly demonstration in An Nabi Saleh was again met by violent opposition from the Israeli Army. One young villager is scheduled to undergo surgery to insert a platinum implant in his leg where the bone was crushed from the impact of a high-velocity tear…
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Israel wages war against Gazan rubble collectors
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…
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Beit Hanoun commemorates 2006 massacre, Israeli forces shoot Gazan rubble collector
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…
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Israeli forces remove the memorial of Samer Sarhan amidst daily unrest in Silwan
8 November 2010 | International Solidarity Movement & Wadi Hilweh Information Center Today, workers from the Jerusalem municipality and Israeli forces removed the Memorial of Samer Sarhan, this morning. They also removed the water supply donated on the soul of Samer Sarhan and the olive tree planted in the place, although the tree was present…
