29th October 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Team | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Families and supporters of Palestinian detainees held by Israel celebrated tonight’s promised release of 26 prisoners during a weekly sit-in Monday morning. The regular event, which began in ...
Read More »Photos: Israeli warplane strikes olive grove north of Gaza
29th October 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Rosa Schiano | Gaza, Occupied Palestine On the morning of Monday, 28 October, the Israeli air forces bombed agricultural land in the north of Gaza City. The airstrike took place at 9:25 am. ...
Read More »Video and photos: March for Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian prisoners, Gaza
23rd October 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Rosa Schiano | Gaza, Occupied Palestine A march in solidarity with Ahmad Sa’adat and all the Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails, Gaza City, 22 October 2013.
Read More »Photos: A morning with the resistance at Gaza’s Monday protest for detainees
23rd October 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Gal·la López | Gaza, Occupied Palestine It’s 9:00 am, and today the Red Cross in Gaza City is more crowded than usual. Women, men, children and the elderly await the arrival of the resistance. In a moment, ...
Read More »Photos: Gaza children hold march and candlelight vigil to free Ahmad Sa’adat
19th October 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Team | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Dozens of Palestinian children marched in Gaza Friday evening before holding a candlelight vigil outside the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). The event was the first in a ...
Read More »Photo: A freed detainee joins his mother at the Gaza protest she began 18 years ago
18th October 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Team | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Ibrahim Baroud joined his mother, Ghalia Baroud, or Um Ibrahim, at Gaza’s weekly sit-in for Palestinian prisoners, which she co-founded, on Monday morning. Baroud, a former Palestinian ...
Read More »Photos: Eid al-Adha under the Gaza siege
18th October 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Charlie Andreasson | Gaza, Occupied Palestine It’s Eid al-Adha, the festival commemorating Ibrahim, or Abraham as the Christian part of the world knows him, and his willingness to sacrifice his son. He never had ...
Read More »Photos: Gaza supporters rally for Alaa Hammad, keep weekly vigil for Palestinian detainees
16th October 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Team | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Palestinians rallied outside Gaza’s International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) office Monday morning to support Alaa Hammad, a Palestinian-Jordanian on hunger struck since May 2 against ...
Read More »Refusing to forget Palestinian political prisoners in Gaza
11th October 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Charlie Andreasson | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Every Monday here in central Gaza City a demonstration is held, and has been since 1994 or 1995. It was the first time I attended, though I’d probably ...
Read More »Photos: Activists in Gaza form human chain for Palestinian detainees
5th October 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Team | Gaza, Occupied Palestine On Thursday afternoon, Activists for Prisoners organized a human chain outside the International Committee of the Red Cross’ Gaza City office to support Palestinians detained by Israel.
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