Category: Gaza
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Israel bars children over eight from visiting fathers in prison
15th June 2013 | The Electronic Intifada, Joe Catron | Gaza City, Occupied Palestine On 20 May, Obeida Shamali visited his father, Ahmad Abd Alraheem Shamali, in Israel’s Nafha prison. It was the first time they had seen each other since Israeli forces captured Ahmad in August 2008. “I was very happy,” the seven-year-old said. He was…
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Video: Farming in Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip
14th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Gal·la | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Saber Al-Zaneen, coordinator of farmers in Beit Hanoun (north Gaza Strip), explains how difficult it is for farmers to work in that area, the disproportional violence they have to face daily and the danger they are exposed to with no reason.
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Man wounded by Israeli gunfire in the southern Gaza Strip
11th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Rosa Schiano | Gaza, Occupied Palestine On the morning of Monday, 10th June, a Palestinian man was injured by Israeli army fire while working in the area of Sufa, southern Gaza Strip, near the barrier with Israel. Hadayed Abu Amer, 20, was picking up rocks and stones to…
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Photo essay: Gaza joins the Global March to Jerusalem
10th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement | Beit Hanoun, Occupied Palestine Thousands of Palestinians from across the Gaza Strip rallied by the closed Erez checkpoint on Friday, marking al-Naksa (the setback), Israel’s 1967 seizure of the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza Strip, Syria’s Golan Heights, and Sinai Peninsula, ceded to Egypt in 1982. Israel’s…
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Palestinian farmer wounded by Israeli army fire
7th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Rosa Schiano | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Sunday morning a young Palestinian farmer was wounded by Israeli army fire in an area called Abu Safiyeh, East of Jabalia, in the Northern Gaza Strip. The young man, Ahmad Hamdan, 21, was rushed to the hospital Kamal Odwan. We went to…
