Category: Reports

  • Testimonies of abducted Gazan fishermen

    ISM Gaza | Fishing Under Fire 13 April 2009 These testimonies were given to ISM Gaza Strip volunteers on April 9th 2009 Izhaq Mohammed Zayed, 46 On Monday 6th April 2009, Izhaq Zayed was with his son, Rassim, in a hassaka (small fishing boat) off the coast of Beit Lahia, northern Gaza. Izhaq was feeling…

  • Israeli forces reintroduce use of high velocity tear gas projectile against demonstrators in Ni’lin

    10 April 2009 The villagers of Ni’lin continued their struggle against the construction of the Apartheid Wall on their land with another weekly Friday demonstration on the 10th of April.  After the mid-day prayer, around 100 villagers carried signs against the occupation and marched towards the construction site of the Wall.  The nonviolent demonstrators  split into two…

  • Palestinian kidnapped by Israeli forces in Tell, Nablus

    9 April 2009 Yassir Shteieh, 29, was kidnapped from his home in Tell, Nablus region by the Israeli army in the middle of the night. Property in his home was destroyed by soldiers and no explanation for his arrest was given. After 3 years in Israeli jail, Yassir Abdullah Teef Hussein Shteieh was recently married…