7th January 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Charlie Andreasson | Gaza, Occupied Palestine On Saturday, 4th January, the Israeli navby shot at five fishermen and their boat, a hasaka, three nautical miles from the shore of Gaza, well within the ...
Read More »Gaza fishermen suffer 85 percent income loss as Israeli siege, attacks continue
4th January 2014 | The Electronic Intifada, Joe Catron | Gaza City, Occupied Palestine On 17 December, Palestinian fishermen and their supporters erected a tent — a traditional venue for protest, as well as celebration and mourning — inside the Gaza seaport. “It was to ...
Read More »Five Years After the Cast Lead Operation: ‘Gaza Writes Back’
28th December 2013 | Arabic Literature (in English), M. Lynx Qualey | Cairo, Egypt It was five years ago that Cast Lead began. Now a book of short stories, Gaza Writes Back, marks the anniversary. The book’s editor, Refaat Alareer, answers questions about the collection: ArabLit: How ...
Read More »Why does Israel treat Gaza farmers sowing wheat by hand as military targets?
28th December 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Charlie Andreasson | Gaza, Occupied Palestine December is the time for farmers in the Gaza Strip to sow. But for those with fields near the Israeli separation barrier, it is highly dangerous. Sure ...
Read More »Escalation of Israeli attacks on Gaza kills two, injures at least 14, over five days
27th December 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Rosa Schiano | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Early on the afternoon on Friday, 20th December, Israeli occupation forces killed a 27-year-old Palestinian, Odah Jihad Hamad, and wounded his brother Raddad, age 22, north of Beit ...
Read More »Photos: Palestinians rally for prisoners in Gaza as Samer Issawi freed in Jerusalem
27th December 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Marco Varasio | Gaza, Occupied Palestine On 23rd December, like every Monday morning, relatives and friends of the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails gathered at the International Committee of the Red Cross’ Gaza ...
Read More »Video: Israeli troops fire on Palestinian farmers and international activists in Gaza
27th December 2013 | Resistenza Quotidiana, Silvia Todeschini | Gaza, Occupied Palestine International activists have been accompanying Palestinian farmers to their lands near the separation barrier between the territories occupied in 1948 and the Gaza Strip. We have noticed, in ...
Read More »Metaphor in Gaza
23rd December 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Charlie Andreasson | Gaza, Occupied Palestine You stand below a dam because you have discovered cracks where water leaks out. You try to seal them with your bare hands, but they are not ...
Read More »Gaza: “Free the Holy Land sea”
23rd December 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Rosa Schiano | Gaza, Occupied Palestine “Free the Holy Land sea” was a three-day protest by fishermen in Gaza which began on Tuesday, 17th November. The fishermen, supported by the Palestinian Center for ...
Read More »At Gaza sit-in for detainees, Um Rami and Um Dia’a hope sons will be released next week
17th December 2013 | Resistenza Quotidiana, Silvia Todeschini | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Every Monday, activists and relatives of political prisoners in Israeli jails attend a solidarity sit-in inside the courtyard of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza. The ...
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