24th October 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza-team | Gaza, occupied Palestine On Sep 5th, 2016, the Gaza fisherman, Ahmed Mohamed Zaied. 32 years of age, was fishing along with his friend using a hasaka (small boat). They were fishing ...
Read More »Palestinian Committee for Breaking the Siege
22nd September 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza team | Gaza, occupied Palestine Yesterday the Palestinian Committee for Breaking the Siege organized an event in Gaza’s port in order to welcome the two boats that left a few days ago ...
Read More »Israeli attacks on Gaza farmers
3rd September 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza team | Khan Younis, occupied Palestine According to the Council for European Palestinian Relations the Palestinian agricultural sector’s contribution to the GDP dropped between 1993 (Oslo Accords) and 2009 from 13% to ...
Read More »The Gaza-blockade is causing an end to Gaza’s fresh water resources
7th August 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza-team | occupied Palestine As every year during the summer, the water shortage in the Gaza Strip is accentuated. At the same time, the energy shortage caused by the blockade prevents engines and ...
Read More »Israeli forces stole 21 boats and sank two more just in the last 3 months
5th July 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza team | Gaza, occupied Palestine Just in the last 3 months Gaza’s fishermen had 21 boats stolen and 2 sunken by the Israeli occupation forces. Each small boat sustains at least 20 ...
Read More »Testimony of one of the latest attacks against Gaza’s fishermen
12th June 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza-team | Gaza Strip, occupied Palestine Last Wednesday Rajab Khaled Abu Riela, 30 years old, his brother and two cousins left Gaza’s port at 12 pm. They stayed out fishing until 1:30 am. ...
Read More »Interview with the wife of the Palestinian prisoner Mohamed Najeeb Nazal, recently kidnaped in an Arab country and handed to Israel
29th May 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza-team | occupied Palestine Mohamed, 33 years old, is originaly from Qabatia, a Palestinian city located near Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. He lived there until he left Palestine in 2007, after ...
Read More »Labour day demonstration in Gaza trying to fight the siege
4th May 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza team | Gaza, occupied Palestine On May 1st, the workers of the Gaza Strip gathered to demand that Mahmoud Abbas and Rami Hamdallah work towards the end of the blockade. The blockade has already strangled ...
Read More »Israeli Forces shoot at family harvesting crops on their land
2nd May 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza team | Gaza, occupied Palestine After more than six months risking their lives while ploughing, planting seeds and weeding their land, and after investing a large amount of money on seeds and on renting a tractor, ...
Read More »Five year anniversary of the death of Vittorio Arrigoni
18th April 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Gaza, occupied Palestine Last Thursday 14th April marked four years since the disappearance of Vittorio Arrigoni in Gaza, under the Israeli blockade. According to subsequent statements and investigations carried out ...
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