• Shootings in Gaza ‘buffer zone’ continue

    4 December 2010 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza On Saturday, the 4th of December 2010, three people were shot and injured at the northern border near to Bait Lahya. All of them sustained multiple fractures that required surgery, and two of them were hit with ‘dum-dum’ bullets, which explode on impact. The three of them were civilians who have no other way to survive than by collecting scrap at the border. Belal Elhsomi is 17 years…

  • Four more workers shot in Gaza buffer zone: an ordinary day in Gaza

    5 December 2010 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza On Tuesday, the 30th of November 2010, four different individuals were wounded by Israeli gunshots while trying to make their living in the only way they could given the desperation in Gaza’s current economy. Ismael Sa’aed Qapeen, 31 years old, was doing his daily work collecting stones when he was shot in the foot, causing him to lose three toes. He was in the “buffer zone,” the area…

  • Israelis and Palestinians march together against demolitons

    3 December 2010 | International Solidarity Movement Friday, hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians marched together in the Issawiya neighborhood of East Jerusalem against recent brutality toward the village by the Israeli government: house demolitions by Israeli authorities, a siege on entrances to the neighborhood, and police misconduct with local residents. This is the first joint protest to be held in Issawiya, a neighborhood that has experienced much turmoil in recent years. Like most Palestinian neighborhoods of…

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