Tag: Beit Hanoun Local Initiative
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There is no east: Olive harvest in Gaza
15 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Gaza doesn’t have very much farmland left. The expanding no go zone imposed by Israeli bullets and bulldozers constantly erode the amount of land left for Palestinians to farm in Gaza. Mohamed Ashure Shimbari lives on the edge of the no-go zone. If you look east from…
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Gaza: Planting the symbol of Palestinian livelihood
12 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza The zone of death, what Israel calls the buffer zone, to the north of Beit Hanoun isn’t shrinking but is a little less dead. For the last three years, the only life that has managed to survive here was a few scraggly plants that somehow manage to…
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Gaza: 29 years later, Palestinians march forward
22 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza For three years the Beit Hanoun Local Initiative and the International Solidarity Movement have marched into the buffer zone north of Beit Hanoun. Tuesday, September 20th was no different. We gathered near the agricultural college, and at 11 AM we marched north into the buffer zone. There…