Category: Reports

  • ISM Rafah: Tree planting in ‘buffer zone’

    Fukharee, Gaza Strip, Palestine – On Monday, 15th September 2008, volunteers with ISM Rafah participated in an action with Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) in symbolically planting trees in the buffer zone in Fukharee area, north of Rafah. The buffer zone is the agricultural area, established by Israeli Occupation Forces, about 300 meters wide…

  • ISM Rafah: ‘Ban the Israeli navy from Gazan territorial waters’

    Gazan Territorial Fishing Waters, Gaza Strip. 17th September 2008. On Wednesday 17th September I, along with two other volunteers from ISM Rafah, went out with three different fishing boats from the Gaza City port to trawl for fish. We left the port at about 8:30am. I was on a boat with fishermen I already knew.…

  • ISM Rafah: Israeli violence continues despite ceasefire

    Tonight (17th September), members of the ISM in the Gaza strip will be staying with a family in the Al Faraheen neighborhood of Abassan Al Kabeera, between Khan Younis and Deir El Balah in Southern Gaza. The family’s home is situated a few hundred meters from the Green Line and the area has suffered a…