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International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People in the no go zone

by Nathan Stuckey 30 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Today, Tuesday, November 29, 2011 is the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. This day commemorates the racist and colonialist proposal of the United Nations to partition Palestine in 1947. All over the world, people stood in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle […]

November 30, 2011
Gaza: Rebuilding from rubble

by Ruqaya Izzidien 29 November 2011 | Al Akhbar English Despite Israel’s blockade on building materials entering the Gaza Strip, local entrepreneurs have come up with a way to turn destruction into reconstruction by recycling rubble into construction material. The bedroom of Nasser Abu Said features two-meter holes punched by Israeli rockets and his front […]

November 29, 2011
‘A Needle in the Binding’: The legacy of Palestinian prisoner self-education in Israeli prisons

by Ben Lorber and Khalil Ashour 29 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On the third floor of the Nablus Municipality Library, there sits a room of over 8,000 books set apart from the rest. Many of these books are very old and tattered; many of them, in lieu of a normal face, […]

November 29, 2011