Report by Donna Wallach – ISM and Free Gaza Movement volunteer reporting on fishing boat actions from Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Palestine. Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Palestine,19th September, 2008. On the morning of Friday 19th September and the 19th day of Ramadan, about 5 Palestinian fishing boats left Gaza City port for another day of … Continue reading ISM Rafah: Report from fishing action in Gaza
Gazan Territorial Fishing Waters, Gaza Strip. 17th September 2008. On Wednesday 17th September I, along with two other volunteers from ISM Rafah, went out with three different fishing boats from the Gaza City port to trawl for fish. We left the port at about 8:30am. I was on a boat with fishermen I already knew. … Continue reading ISM Rafah: ‘Ban the Israeli navy from Gazan territorial waters’
Two Gazan fishing boats with international human rights workers on board were repeatedly attacked by 2 Israeli gunboats while they were trying to exercise Palestinian people’s right to fish in the Palestinian waters. One of the Israeli gunboats was using a water cannon to throw water with high pressure while the other one was randomly … Continue reading ISM Rafah: Italian activist injured by Israeli navy off Gaza coast
Saturday 6th September, it was just 09:30 and we were only 4 miles out to sea, having barely left Gaza’s coastline behind, when the gunboat’s heavy machine gun opened up, spraying the wake around our hull with bullets. There was no surprise. We’d just spent the previous 10 minutes watching as this Israeli gunboat harried … Continue reading ISM Rafah: Fishing in Gaza
The International Solidarity Movement would like to announce the re-establishment of a presence in the Gaza Strip. International solidarity activists will be based in Rafah in efforts to show support for non-violent direct action against the Israeli occupation. As activists from the Free Gaza Movement broke the siege on Gaza in their historic and hugely … Continue reading ISM re-establish presence in the Gaza Strip
