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International Day of Solidarity in Gaza greeted with bullets in Beit Hanoun

1 December 2010 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Live bullets were fired from snipers at an Erez control tower within a metre of demonstrators on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on Tuesday morning in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza. A German activist Vera Macht was injured as she stumbled while running for cover. The Local Initiative of Beit Hanoun organized the demonstration international mural and with extra attention focusing on the growing international…

December 2, 2010

Buffer zone attacks continue: three more workers shot

28 November 2010 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza The northern border area of the Strip is for the second day under attack of IOF snipers. Yesterday three people were shot, including a 12 year old boy, leaving one man in a critical condition. Today three more people were injured by Israeli gunfire while working in the buffer zone, amongst them was yet again a child. Mokles Jawad Al Masri (15), Mamdoe Ajesh Alsoes (20) and Mohamed…

November 29, 2010

Police exonerate Israeli officer who shot canister that hit U.S. activist’s eye

28 November 2010 | Haaretz, Chaim Levinson Art student Emily Henochowicz was seriously injured during a protest against the IDF’s raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in late May. The Judea and Samaria district police found no criminal wrongdoing in the actions of the Border Police soldiers who left an American art student without an eye after getting hit in the face with a tear gas canister at a protest in Qalandiyah six months ago. The…

November 28, 2010