Category: Press Releases
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Human rights defenders under live fire, one dead
20th July 2014 | International Solidarity Movement | Gaza, Occupied Palestine The Israeli military just shot a Gazan man trying to reach his family, during an announced ceasefire. He was with a group of municipality workers and international human rights defenders who were attempting to retrieve injured people in the Shajiya neighbourhood. “We all just watched a man…
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El-Wafa hospital staff attempted to retrieve medicine
19th July 2014 | International Solidarity Movement| Gaza, Occupied Palestine Hospital staff and international activists, from the U.S., Sweden, and the UK, attempted to travel to the recently bombed el-Wafa hospital, in an attempt to retrieve salvageable medical supplies. When they arrived at the hospital it was, “still smoking from the attack this morning.” Stated U.S. International…
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Israeli military shells Gazan el-Wafa hopsital
18th July 2014 | International Solidarity Movement | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Yesterday at 20:40 the Israeli military contacted el-Wafa hospital in Gaza and stated, “Why don’t you care about your family? Why don’t you care about your patients?” The receptionist replied, “Sir, you can’t bomb the hospital. We cannot move the patients.” Several minutes later, two…
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El-Wafa hospital threatened with bombing by Israeli military
16th July 2014 | International Solidarity Movement | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Yesterday evening (July 15th) at approximately 23:05 el-Wafa Rehabilitation hospital in Gaza, near Gaza City, received a call from someone claiming to be from the “Defense department of the Israeli forces”. The caller informed the hospital to evacuate everyone by this morning, and then hung…
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International activists remain in Gaza hospital threatened by Israeli missiles
11th July 2014 | International Solidarity Movement| Gaza, Occupied Palestine Israel’s army fired four ‘warning’ missiles at the roof of El-Wafa rehabilitation hospital in Gaza City, Gaza. International volunteers now staying in the hospital in solidarity, have said they, “can hear missiles falling close by”. “The civilian population of Gaza is being bombed. We will stay…
