Category: Reports

  • UPDATED: Murad Eshtewi, head of the Popular Committee of Kafr Qaddum, has been arrested

    UPDATED: Murad Eshtewi, head of the Popular Committee of Kafr Qaddum, has been arrested

    21st December 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Kafr Qaddum, Occupied Palestine Second Update 24th December:  A military judge has ruled that Murad Eshtewi will be released from prison with a 7000 NIS bail. Nery Ramati, Murad’s lawyer, argued that it was unreasonable to continue to hold Murad for interrogation as he had not been…

  • Gaza: “Free the Holy Land sea”

    Gaza: “Free the Holy Land sea”

    23rd December 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Rosa Schiano | Gaza, Occupied Palestine “Free the Holy Land sea” was a three-day protest by fishermen in Gaza which began on Tuesday, 17th November. The fishermen, supported by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights and al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, set up a tent at the Gaza…

  • At Gaza sit-in for detainees, Um Rami and Um Dia’a hope sons will be released next week

    At Gaza sit-in for detainees, Um Rami and Um Dia’a hope sons will be released next week

    17th December 2013 | Resistenza Quotidiana, Silvia Todeschini | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Every Monday, activists and relatives of political prisoners in Israeli jails attend a solidarity sit-in inside the courtyard of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza. The perseverance of these women and men, who have met here every week for eighteen years,…

  • Palestinian child wounded by Israeli gunfire while harvesting potatoes in Gaza

    Palestinian child wounded by Israeli gunfire while harvesting potatoes in Gaza

    17th December 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Rosa Schiano | Gaza, Occupied Palestine On Sunday, 15th December, a young Palestinian was injured by Israeli gunfire in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. Mohammed el-Shanbary, age 17, was harvesting potatoes. “I went to work at 9 am,” el-Shanbary said. “After about 30 minutes, the soldiers…

  • Besieged Gaza Strip battered by historic storm

    Besieged Gaza Strip battered by historic storm

    16th December 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Silvia Todeschini and Henni | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Gaza’s bad weather has disrupted access lines and flooded whole areas. Thousands of families have been evacuated. Numerous injuries and two deaths have been reported. The Zionist siege and occupation contribute to aggravating the situation for tens of thousands of people.…