• Statement for USS Liberty memorial service

    7 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza This statement was submitted for tonight’s memorial service off the coast of the Gaza Strip. We join Larry Toenjes, Joe and Sherrie Wagner, Rusty Glenn, and all supporters of the s/v Liberty in remembering the deaths of 34 USS Liberty servicemen killed by the State of Israel on June 8, 1967, and the wounding of 174 more. As crew members of the Oliva, a civilian craft monitoring Israeli…

  • Wasteland in al Walajeh: Israeli military destruction of farmland

    7 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Tuesday September  6th local Palestinians from the village of Al Walajeh gathered with international activists to protest the building of the illegal separation barrier as well as the destruction of ancient olive trees. The demonstrators succeeded in halting the razing of Palestinian land for approximately one hour before soldiers violently broke up the protest arresting one Palestinian and one Israeli activist. On September 5th bulldozers protected by…

  • Today we planted in Gaza’s buffer zone

    6  September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Strip Today, like every Tuesday in Beit Hanoun, we marched into the buffer zone to protest it and the illegal Israeli occupation.  In many ways it was the same as every Tuesday.  We gathered at the Agricultural College, we marched down the road that leads to the buffer zone, we sang, and we chanted. What was different this week? The demonstration was bigger than it has been in…

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