Category: Gaza
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Two Palestinian fishermen, including child, kidnapped by Israeli forces off Gaza
27th January 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Rosa Schiano | Gaza, Occupied Palestine On Monday, 20th January, at about 6:00 am, Yousef Amin Abo Warda (age 18) and his cousin Ahmad Kamal Abo Warda (age 16) left their house to go fishing in a small boat without an engine. Around 7:30 am they were fishing in…
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Gaza: Life beneath the drones
25th January 2014 | Corporate Watch, Tom Anderson and Therezia Cooper | Gaza, Occupied Palestine In the Gaza Strip there is no escape from Israel’s drones. Nicknameed ‘zenana’by Palestinians because of their noisy buzzing, the drones (remote control aircraft) are omnipresent. Sometimes they are there to carry out an extra judicial killing and sometimes they are there…
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Israeli warplanes kill member of Palestinian armed group and his cousin in Beit Hanoun, Gaza
23rd January 2014 | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights | Gaza, Occupied Palestine In an extra-judicial execution attempt, on Wednesday 22 January 2014, an Israeli drone fired a missile at a civilian car in Beith Hanoun, Northern Gaza. As a result, both passengers, a member of a Palestinian armed group and his cousin, were killed…
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Photos and video: Israeli forces’ gunfire blocks Palestinian farmland in Gaza
22nd January 2014 | Resistenza Quotidiana, Sil | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Since the Zionist occupation forces’ bulldozers had destroyed part of Khaled Qudaih’s field in Khuza’a, east of Khan Younis, he and his family went out to sow it again. The military responded with about half an hour of gunfire, threatening to strike Qudaih directly if he had not…
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Photos: Rally to save sick prisoner Ibrahim Bitar follows Gaza sit-in for detainees
20th January 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Team | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Dozens of Palestinians joined a rally organized by the Popular Campaign to Save the Life of the Captive Patient Ibrahim Bitar outside the International Committee of the Red Cross’ Gaza office this morning. The gathering followed a weekly sit-in by families and supporters…
