Category: Features
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International human rights workers to accompany Gazan farmers near the ‘buffer zone’ despite Israeli threats
For Immediate Release: Sunday, 31 May 2009: Four international human rights workers from the ISM-Gaza Strip will be accompanying farmers from Khoza as they harvest crops next to the Green Line, for a second day. In the morning, human rights workers will join Palestinian farmers in Khoza village, located east of Khan Younis in the…
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International human rights workers to accompany Gazan farmers in ‘buffer zone’ despite Israeli threats
For Immediate Release: Saturday, 30 May 2009: Five international human rights workers from the ISM-Gaza Strip will be accompanying farmers from Khoza’a as they harvest crops next to the Green Line. In the morning, human rights workers will join Palestinian farmers in Khoza’a village, located east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, to…
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IAF planes drop intimidating pamphlets over Gaza
ISM Gaza | Farming Under Fire 25 May 2009 Translation of leaflet (both leaflets have the same message with different maps): To the people of the strip: The Israeli Defense Forces repeat their alert forbidding the coming close to the border fence at a distance less than 300 metres who gets close will subject himself…
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Israeli forces shoot Ni’lin demonstrator in the head with tear-gas projectile
22 May 2009 Residents of Ni’lin gathered in the olive groves near the village to hold the weekly prayer before the start of the demonstration at 12:30. Several speeches were made to commemorate the 1 year anniversary since Ni’lin’s resistance against the Apartheid Wall began. Israeli soldiers positioned themselves around the people praying. Several soldiers…
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Beit Ommar farmers continue to challenge closed military zones in order to reach their lands
Palestine Solidarity Project Saturday, 16th May 2009 On the morning of the 16th, Palestinian farmers from Beit Ommar village with lands in Saffa close to the illegal Israeli settlement of Bet Ayn, defied a closed military zone order issued by the army in order to work their lands. At around 7am, about a dozen farmers…