Category: Journals
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Gaza: Planting the symbol of Palestinian livelihood
12 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza The zone of death, what Israel calls the buffer zone, to the north of Beit Hanoun isn’t shrinking but is a little less dead. For the last three years, the only life that has managed to survive here was a few scraggly plants that somehow manage to…
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A letter from Nariman Tamimi to the world
7 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On 27 September 2011 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons announced the start of a campaign of disobedience to protest an escalating series of punitive measures taken against them by the Israeli Prison Service. Today marks the 8th day of their hunger strike. A call for…
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Gaza: Planting in something dead
5 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Around Gaza is a 300 meter “buffer zone,” a no go zone, a land of death. Gaza is not just a prison, it is a shrinking prison. Every time that Israel expands this zone, Gaza gets a little smaller. Every Tuesday, the Beit Hanoun Local Initiative and…
