Category: Gaza

  • Israeli navy kidnaps two Palestinian children and uncle fishing in Gazan waters

    Israeli navy kidnaps two Palestinian children and uncle fishing in Gazan waters

    by Radhika S. 12 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Seventeen-year-old Abdul Qader Baker still has no idea why the Israeli navy surrounded his small fishing boat at 4 a.m. Thursday morning, ordered him, his 17-year-old cousin Mohamed Baker, and his uncle, Arafat Baker, to strip off their clothes, stand shivering in their underwear…

  • Palestinian Scouts welcome exiled prisoner to Gaza

    Palestinian Scouts welcome exiled prisoner to Gaza

    by Joe Catron 12 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Palestinian Scouts and their families rallied in the Gaza YMCA Friday afternoon to honor former political prisoner Christian Al-Bandak and welcome him to Gaza. Al-Bandak, who donned a Scout neckerchief to receive a commemorative plaque, is one of 477 prisoners already released by Israel…

  • Remembrance in Beit Hanoun

    Remembrance in Beit Hanoun

    by Nathan Stuckey 9 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza It is Tuesday, the third day of Eid, the Eid of the Sacrifice.  We, the Beit Hanoun Local Initiative and the International Solidarity Movement, have gathered near the bombed remains of the Beit Hanoun Agricultural College like we do every Tuesday in preparation for…

  • Freedom Waves prisoners abused and imprisoned; ‘Anonymous’ hackers strike back

    by Ben Lorber 7 November 2011 | Mondoweiss In the immediate aftermath of the illegal capture of the Freedom Waves flotillas, Israel’s public image has been tarnished, as reports of violence at sea surface to counteract its claims of a peaceful takeover, and as human rights cyber-resistance group Anonymous retaliates by shutting down Israeli government…

  • Nasr Ibrahim Alean was murdered by Israel Thursday

    Nasr Ibrahim Alean was murdered by Israel Thursday

    by Nathan Stuckey 7 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Nasr Ibrahim Alean was a 23 year old farmer from Beit Lahia.  He was murdered on November 3, 2011.  He was picking strawberries in his field when he was shot in the leg by the Israeli army.  He called his friend Muhammad Abu Helmeyyah,…