UN report: IDF barring Gazans’ access to farms, fishing zones

19 August 2010 | Haaretz Humanitarian affairs office: Israel restricts entry to 17% of Gaza lands, 85% of beachfront zone, enforces restrictions with live fire. Over the last ten years, the Israel Defense Forces have increasingly restricted Palestinian access to farmland on the Gazan side of the Israeli-Gaza border as well as to fishing zones … Continue reading UN report: IDF barring Gazans’ access to farms, fishing zones

Jubilation and a symbolic act of resistance to the siege: the Gaza boat race

30 July 2010 | ISM Gaza “I call to the whole world to treat us like everybody else, to break the blockade of the sea and of the whole Gaza Strip, so that people will be able to make a living from the sea again”, states the happy winner of the first Gaza boat race, … Continue reading Jubilation and a symbolic act of resistance to the siege: the Gaza boat race

Israeli violence continues in Gaza ‘buffer zone’: wheat harvest prevented; three injured by shelling

International Solidarity Movement 20 June 2010 Five female farm-workers returned to the Gaza ‘buffer zone’ early Saturday morning, with the intention of continuing the wheat harvest near Khoza’a village, Khan Yunis. The harvesters were forced to abandon their work after just thirty minutes as snipers attacked the unarmed workers with a barrage of live ammunition. … Continue reading Israeli violence continues in Gaza ‘buffer zone’: wheat harvest prevented; three injured by shelling

Wheat harvest met with live ammunition in Gaza “buffer zone”

International Solidarity Movement 13 June 2010 Israeli forces attacked women farmworkers and international human rights activists with heavy gunfire during three days’ wheat harvest in the southern Gaza Strip. The Israel-imposed “buffer zone” illegally claims over 30% of Gaza’s arable farmland. In Khoza’a village, east of Khan Yunis, substantial wheat remains unharvested despite severe poverty … Continue reading Wheat harvest met with live ammunition in Gaza “buffer zone”

Concern grows over flotilla missing and prisoners

Free Gaza Movement & ISM London FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE UK, 2pm, Tuesday 1st June International Solidarity Movement volunteers today expressed grave concern over the fate of wounded, imprisoned and missing flotilla activists. The group said, with an information blackout from Israel preventing news of their plight reaching the media, speculation is mounting about the Internationals’ … Continue reading Concern grows over flotilla missing and prisoners