Category: Gaza

  • Death in Shati

    Death in Shati

    28 June 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Charlie Andreasson | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Yesterday, shortly after three o’clock local time, two men were killed in their car. Two missiles struck it only about 100 meters from former prime minister Ismail Haniyeh’s residence in Shati (“Beach”) refugee camp. Ambulances soon arrived and took the two men…

  • Collective punishment in Palestine

    Collective punishment in Palestine

    22nd June 2014 | International Solidarity Movement| Occupied Palestine On Thursday 12th of this month, three settler youth disappeared while hitchhiking in the Hebron area of the West Bank. No Palestinian group or organisation has taken responsibility for the disappearance. 15-year-old Mohammad Dudeen was murdered in the early hours of Friday morning (20th) after he was…

  • Israeli forces killed member of Palestinian armed group and wounded 3 Palestinian civilians, including a child

    Israeli forces killed member of Palestinian armed group and wounded 3 Palestinian civilians, including a child

    12th June 2014 | Palestinian Center for Human Rights | Gaza, Occupied Palestine On Wednesday evening, 11 June 2014, 3 Palestinian civilians, including a child whose condition was described as very serious, were wounded when Israeli forces targeted a member of an armed group who was killed by two missiles launched by a drone in the northern…

  • Israeli attacks on fishermen in the Gaza sea

    Israeli attacks on fishermen in the Gaza sea

    15th May 2014 | Palestinian Center for Human Rights | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Israeli Naval forces continued to carry out attacks on Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip during the reporting period[1] (1-30 April 2014), including 11 shooting incidents; 3 chasing incident that led to the arrest of 2 fishermen, and confiscation of 2 fishing boats and fishing equipment…

  • Palestinian Christian struggle mapped in new book

    Palestinian Christian struggle mapped in new book

    5th May 2014 | The Electronic Intifada, Joe Catron | Gaza City, Occupied Palestine In Mapping Exile and Return: Palestinian Dispossession and a Political Theology for a Shared Future, American Mennonite theologian and aid worker Alain Epp Weaver explores a legacy of Palestinian Christian exile, and struggle for return. The book’s terrain ranges from the ethnically-cleansed villages of the Galilee to the Upper…