Category: Features

  • It’s a ceasefire…just not on the beach, not in your home

    Eva Bartlett | In Gaza On the 5th morning after Israel declared a ‘ceasefire’, Israeli gunboats began shelling, as they had on several mornings since halting the 22 day air and land bombardment of Gaza. The shelling, which began just after 7:30 am off Gaza city’s coast, injured at least 6, including one boy with…

  • Two shot with live ammunition at Ni´lin prayer demonstration

    January 23, 2009 On Friday, 23 January 2009, the residents of Ni’lin gathered with international and Israeli solidarity activists in their continued resistance against construction of the Apartheid Wall. Around 100 demonstrators participated in the weekly Friday prayer demonstration, a gesture of protest to the annexation of Ni’lin’s land and apartheid policies towards the Palestinian…

  • Ground Zero

    Tuesday 20th January, 2009 Earlier this week, following the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip, residents returned to some of the areas which had become no-go zones during the attacks, such as Jabalia just outside Gaza City. On Tuesday 20th January, ISM Gaza Strip volunteers joined a university professor as he visited his…

  • First views of Attattra, northwestern Gaza

    Eva Bartlett | In Gaza On January 18, the first day that Israel stopped most of the bombing all over Gaza (navy shelling continues to this moment), after learning that my friend’s father was alive in eastern Jabaliya, I went on to Attatra, the northwest region, which had been cut off since Israeli troops invaded.…

  • Gaza film shows white phosphorus from alleged Israeli attack

    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…