Search results for: “fishermen”

  • Picking pebbles to live somehow

    Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service 2 March 2010 They come by the hundreds every day to sand dunes and rubble sites to sift for pebbles, stones and sand that can be used in making concrete blocks. They lean into trash bins across the Strip, and wade through piles of rubbish scavenging for plastics, metals,…

  • Fishing Under Fire Report 2009

    Fishing Under Fire 5 January 2010 Since the declaration of the “ceasefire”(18/1/2009), till the end of the year: 1 fisherman have been assassinated by the Israeli Navy at least 7 fishermen have been injured by gunfire (and at least another one sustained burns after shelling) in the sea, while another fisherman was reported by several…

  • Gaza massacre reflections

    Eva Bartlett | In Gaza 28 December 2009 The anniversary of the first day of Israel’s massacre of Gaza last winter passed yesterday. Palestinians still locked in Gaza couldn’t avoid thinking about that hell, recalling to others where they were when the first strikes hit…what they did, what they thought, what they saw and smelled…