By Rami Almeghari 22 June 2012 | The Electronic Intifada, Gaza City “I can never forget his image with blood all over his little body and both his legs badly injured,” Umm Mamoun Hassouna told The Electronic Intifada as she ...
Read More »20 Palestinian detained children started a hunger strike in Hasharon prison
13 June 2012 | Palestinian Information Center, Gaza Twenty Palestinian children, detained in Hasharon prison, launched on Tuesday June 12, an open hunger strike protesting the harsh prison conditions and the prison administration’s neglect of their demands. A 17-years-old child ...
Read More »Gaza: farmer shot in the leg with a targeted bullet
By Rosa Schiano 21 May 2012 | il Blog di Oliva On Sunday, May 20, an Israeli soldier shot a young Palestinian farmer while on his land in Al-Quara, north east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza strip. Waheed ...
Read More »Volunteer in Gaza with the ISM
21 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza The International Solidarity Movement is appealing for activists to join our team in the besieged Gaza Strip. After being barred from Gaza in 2003 following the murders of Rachel Corrie and Tom ...
Read More »Gaza: Harvesting barley at Erez crossing amidst gun fire
By Hama Waqum 19 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Ten Palestinian volunteers harvested wheat in Gaza’s northern no-go zone on Wednesday, May 16, only 350 meters from where the Israeli Apartheid wall encircles the Gaza Strip. Two weeks ...
Read More »Wheat farmers under fire in Gaza: We must continue to work our land
by Nathan Stuckey 23 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Today we went farming with the family of Ahmed Saadat. We arrived in Khuzaa at about 7 AM and met Ahmed. He told us that the Israeli’s had already ...
Read More »It’s time to harvest the crop: Accompanying farmers in Gaza under Israeli fire
by Rosa Schiano Translation by Claudia Saba 23 April 2012 | il Blog di Oliva Israeli soldiers have already started shooting onto the land along the border of the Gaza Strip. Two injured just in the first two days of ...
Read More »The siege in the sea: Accompanying Gaza’s fishermen under attack by the Israeli Navy
by Rosa Schiano 19 April 2012 | il Blog di Oliva To accompany the fishermen of Gaza on their boats, as human shields to protect them, it provides not only an account of human rights violations by Israel, but also ...
Read More »Gaza: The march for prisoners within a prison
by Nathan Stuckey 18 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza April 17th is Palestinain Prisoners Day. All over Palestine demonstrations were held in solidarity with the approximately 5,000 prisoners still held in the occupations jails. Bait Hanoun was no ...
Read More »Mahmoud, 19 years old, killed at Erez during Land Day between dreams and hopes: The words of his family
by Rosa Schiano 11 April 2012 | il Blog di Oliva On Friday 30th March, during the “Land Day,” Gaza joined the Global March in order to remember the confiscation of Palestinian lands by Israel which were protested against on ...
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