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ISM Rafah: Italian activist injured by Israeli navy off Gaza coast
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…
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ISM Rafah: Fishing in Gaza
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…
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ISM re-establish presence in the Gaza Strip
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…