Category: Journals
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Children’s Day in Khan Younis
by Nathan Stuckey 10 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Poverty is pervasive in Gaza. After 44 years of occupation, and six years of siege the economy is in tatters. Exporting anything is basically impossible, farming is crippled by the no go zones which encircle Gaza leaving over 30% of agricultural land off limits,…
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Neither threats nor murders will stop our demonstrations
by Nathan Stuckey 4 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Over the weekend Israeli planes dropped flyers over Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia warning that anyone who approached within three hundred meters of the border would be shot. It is not as though the people don’t know of this policy. As the following conversation…
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They shoot the youth don’t they?
by Johnny Bravo 4 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza On March 30, 1976, the Palestinian people declared a general strike and demonstrated against the Israeli confiscation of thousands of acres of land in the Galilee. The Israeli’s responded with violence, killing six unarmed Palestinian demonstrators and injuring hundreds. Every year Land Day is…
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Land Day commemoration in Al Huda School, Khan Yunis
by Nathan Stuckey 1 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Al Huda School is a small, private primary school in Khan Yunis. It serves about 400 students, a quarter of them orphans. The school isn’t in the center of town, it is more out in the countryside. You look out the windows over fields…
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The march from Erez to the iron doors of Al Aqsa
by Nathan Stuckey 30 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Sometimes, the more things change the more they stay the same. On March 30, 1976 during protests against the confiscation of Palestinian land, Israel killed six protesters, injured over one hundred and arrested hundreds more. This was the first Land Day. Every year for…
