Category: Reports

  • Demonstrators march in Al Ma’asara

    19 June 2009 Demonstrators gathered in Al Ma’sara today to protest the construction the wall and the illegal expansion of Israeli settlements. 100 Palestinians, Israelis and internationals marched through the streets carrying a 30-foot long Palestinian flag, chanting against the Wall and demanding an end to the occupation. As the march approached a main thoroughfare,…

  • PCHR: 2 more fishermen abducted by the Israeli Navy

    ISM Gaza | Fishing Under Fire 16 June 2009 At approximately 06:00, IOF gunboats opened fire at a fishing boat in al-Waha area in the northern Gaza Strip. They then moved towards the boat and arrested two fishers: Hadi Sobhi Sa’dallah, 19; and his brother Ashraf, 26. They took the two fisherso Ashdod Harbor in…

  • Rotting in the ‘buffer zone’

    ISM Gaza | Farming Under Fire 18 June 2009 Ahmed Abu Hashish, a Bedouin teenager of 18 years from a rural community in the northern Gaza Strip had been missing for 54 days. A shepherd then noticed a murder of crows on a patch of land from which there was also a foul stench emanating,…