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Photos: A morning with the resistance at Gaza’s Monday protest for detainees
23rd October 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Gal·la López | Gaza, Occupied Palestine It’s 9:00 am, and today the Red Cross in Gaza City is more crowded than usual. Women, men, children and the elderly await the arrival of the resistance. In a moment, they will receive some members of the al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement. When the resistance members arrive, a noise of great joy spreads throughout the crowd. They distribute flowers among the mothers, wives…
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A portrait of steadfastness in the Gaza Strip’s deadly “buffer zone”
21st October 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Charlie Andreasson | Gaza, Occupied Palestine An older man meets us when we step out of the taxi, a patriarch, his back straight, with a firm handshake and a welcoming smile. The other activists I shared a taxi with have all been there before, and we sit with no major ceremonies at the gate of the house as the sun casts its last warm rays upon us. Soon we are…
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Photos: Gaza children hold march and candlelight vigil to free Ahmad Sa’adat
19th October 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Team | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Dozens of Palestinian children marched in Gaza Friday evening before holding a candlelight vigil outside the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). The event was the first in a global week of action to free Ahmad Sa’adat and other Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. Sa’adat, an elected PLC member and general secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was captured by Israeli forces on 3 March 2006. During…
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