• Gaza strikes: Destroying just to destroy

    20 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Israeli attacks on Gaza are not limited to trying to kill people.  Sometimes, they bomb things just to destroy them, pointless destruction.  On the morning of August 19th, 2011 Israeli warplanes bombed Kateeba.  Kateeba is a large unfinished building near Al Azhar University.  It has a giant green lawn, one of the few green spaces in Gaza, and is a popular place for people to hang out at…

  • Israeli forces continue to bomb Gaza: 13 year old boy dead and 18 injured

    19 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza  Israel’s price tag campaign is not waged only by the settlers in the West Bank; it is also waged against the people of Gaza.  It isn’t exactly clear what the Gaza Strip is paying the price for. In contrast to Israeli propaganda, people are killed in Gaza all the time.  This has been a bloody week.  An 18 year old mentally disabled man was shot to death on…

  • Kufr Qaddoum cutting the wire on illegal settlements

    19 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank A joyful demonstration occurred in Kufr Qaddoum today, when more than 100 demonstrators successfully cut open and tore down a razor wire fence on a road leading to Nablus just outside the city. The demonstration began at around 12:30 p.m., when about 100 Palestinians and 15 international activists began to march down the main road of Kufr Qaddoum. Amid the clapping and chanting, they encountered around 20…

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