• Harvesting olives on the Green Line in Gaza

    Film by Fida Qishta. Language editing by ISM Gaza On the 9th October, members of ISM Gaza supported an action organised by a Palestinian youth group called The Local Initiative. Olive farmers were accompanied onto their land, situated extremely close to the Green Line, under the shadow of several Israeli watchtowers. Palestinian and international activists…

  • ISM Gaza join 2008 Olive Harvest Campaign

    Many farmers in the Gaza Strip are being denied access to their land by Israeli occupation forces. An arbitrary ‘buffer zone’ is being imposed hundreds of metres deep long the Green Line. Agricultural land has been destroyed in these areas and massive numbers of olive and fruit trees have been bulldozed, devastating the livelihoods of…

  • ISM Gaza: Israel continues to breach ceasefire agreement with attacks on fishermen

    On Wednesday 8th October, international Human Rights Workers (HRWs) accompanied Palestinian fishing boats off the coast of Gaza. In the morning, while sailing about 7 nautical miles from shore, Israeli gunboats approached the Palestinian fishing boats. After request from Palestinian captain, one of the internationals talked on VHF radio. Despite that fact, Israeli gunboats continued…

  • Amnesty International UK: Hurnall case – Israeli military forces still kill civilians with ‘near-total impunity’

    To view original article, published by Amnesty International UK on the 7th October, click here Ahead of a new television drama based on the controversial killing in 2004 in Gaza of British national Tom Hurndall (‘The Shooting Of Thomas Hurndall’, Channel Four Television, Monday 13 October), Amnesty International has renewed its call for justice for…

  • Farmers from Salim village discover theft and damage to their olive groves

    On Monday 6 October approximately 15 families went to their lands near Elon More settlement only to discover many of the trees have yielded little harvest and the olives had been stolen by settlers. The village had been given 3 days from the Israeli District Co-ordination Office (DCO) where protection for farmers would be provided…