Category: Journals

  • Beit Hanoun remembers Vittorio: “When he spoke you had to listen”

    Beit Hanoun remembers Vittorio: “When he spoke you had to listen”

    by Nathan Stuckey 11 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza One year ago Vittorio Arrigoni was murdered.  Since coming to Gaza, Vik, as everyone knew him, had been a regular at Beit Hanoun’s weekly demonstrations against the no go zone and the occupation.  Vik had devoted his life to ending the occupation.  Sadly, he…

  • Children’s Day in Khan Younis

    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,…

  • 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…