Category: Journals
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“The reason is to wipe out Palestinian culture and history”: A Gaza carpet factory under siege
28th March 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Charlie Andreasson | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Before we settle down for a glass of Turkish coffee among shelves filled with neatly stacked, woven carpets Mahmoud El Sawaf, 68 years old, shows me around the small factory. The tour goes pretty quickly. There ‘s only a mechanized loom and a manual one. The…
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Armed settlers occupy village land in Hebron
14th March 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Team Khalil | Arab ar Rashyaida, Occupied Palestine On Tuesday 11th March 2014 villagers from Arab ar Rashyaida, 15 kilometers (10 miles) west of Hebron, noticed that a large tent and industrial digger had moved onto a hill top on a villagers land. ISM Hebron was called and accompanied…
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Madleen Kolab, Gaza’s only fisherwoman
9th February 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Charlie Andreasson | Gaza, Occupied Palestine I have seen her standing there more then once, at the edge of the port, looking out over the boats in the harbor and then towards the horizon. And for a short second, I have seen myself, when as a child I took…
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Why does Israel treat Gaza farmers sowing wheat by hand as military targets?
28th December 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Charlie Andreasson | Gaza, Occupied Palestine December is the time for farmers in the Gaza Strip to sow. But for those with fields near the Israeli separation barrier, it is highly dangerous. Sure enough, we were met by news that an 18-year-old was shot an hour earlier when…
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Metaphor in Gaza
23rd December 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Charlie Andreasson | Gaza, Occupied Palestine You stand below a dam because you have discovered cracks where water leaks out. You try to seal them with your bare hands, but they are not enough. The pressure is too high, and the cracks too large. And you scream for…
