Category: Reports

  • ISM Rafah: Israeli navy vessels again open fire on Gazan fishermen

    On Monday 8th September at least ten fishing vessels left Gaza City port and traveled out into the Mediterranean Sea up to 10 miles offshore. ISM volunteers were onboard three of the boats. They were equipped with video cameras to record and document the aggressive actions of the Israeli naval gunboats towards the fishing vessels.…

  • Israeli army invade Nablus, murdering one Palestinian

    At approximately 18:00 on Wednesday 10 September Israeli special forces entered the Mount Gezzim area of Nablus to arrest a Palestinian they accused of owning a weapon. Following the arrest and detention of two Palestinians, Israeli soldiers then shot multiple times and killed an unarmed man nearby. The Israeli army had been in neighbouring homes…

  • ISM Rafah: Fishing in Gaza

    Saturday 6th September, it was just 09:30 and we were only 4 miles out to sea, having barely left Gaza’s coastline behind, when the gunboat’s heavy machine gun opened up, spraying the wake around our hull with bullets. There was no surprise. We’d just spent the previous 10 minutes watching as this Israeli gunboat harried…