Category: Reports
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ISM Gaza Strip: Sowing lentils, reaping bullets, in Khouza’a, Gaza Strip
Khouza’a, Gaza Strip, Palestine, 6th November 2008: By Donna Wallach A number of Palestinian farmers went to their fields yesterday (6th November) to sow seeds for crops of wheat, lentils and rye to be harvested in the spring. Some internationals, volunteering with ISM Gaza, accompanied the farmers as they worked – the first time in…
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Israeli Occupation Forces invade Al Faqr refugee camp
Early on the morning of Monday 3rd November, approximately 400 Israeli soldiers entered Al Faqr refugee camp to the north of Nablus city, destroying homes, throwing tear gas and sound bombs and imposing a curfew on the camp. At 2am soldiers disrupted the sleep of the residents of the camp, raiding almost 200 homes and…
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ISM Gaza: Gazan fisherman injured during Israeli water cannon attack
On Friday 31st October, 2008, seven trawling vessels from the port of Gaza City were accompanied by ten international human rights observers. Activists from the International Solidarity Movement were joined by volunteers from the Free Gaza Movement who reached Gaza on October 29th on the MV Dignity. The fishing fleet left port at about 07:30.…
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IWPS: Israeli soldiers beat Palestinian farmer unconscious near Kufr Qaddum
To view the International Women’s Peace Service (IWPS) website click here On Tuesday, November 4th, 2008, a family of about 15 was harvesting its land on a slope of Jebel Mohammed north of Kafr Qaddum village, close to the eastern side of a caravan outpost of the Qedumim settlement, when they were approached by Israeli…
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ISM Gaza reports from the Olive Harvest Campaign 2008 in the ‘buffer zone’
This is a compilation of reports of Olive Harvest in Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya, 11th, 13th, 16th & 30th October. Video by Fida Qishta. ISM Gaza Strip volunteers living in the Gaza Strip have been assisting farmers living in the Buffer Zone areas of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya with their olive harvest during…