Tag: Beit Hanoun

  • Israel drops missile on North Gaza neighborhood, no one cares

    Israel drops missile on North Gaza neighborhood, no one cares

    Radhika Sainath | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza The Israeli Air Force fired a missile into a Beit Hanoun residential neighborhood in north Gaza early Sunday morning. The missile landed in a grove surrounded by homes, creating a crater the size of a tennis court and destroying over forty orange and olive trees. Chunks of shrapnel and…

  • Israeli tanks patrol olive farmers in Gaza

    23 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Olive farmers and volunteers were picking olives on 23 October 2011 when they were circled by two Apache helicopters and were faced by four tanks at certain points in the day. This video shows one of the tanks.  

  • Honeymoon in Gaza

    16 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza I had just finished off a plate of homemade bread knaffe yesterday with a family in the south of Gaza, when we got the call: farmers in Beit Hanoun, a village in the north of the Gaza Strip, requested that ISM volunteers accompany them to pick olives…

  • There is no east: Olive harvest in Gaza

    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…

  • Gaza: Planting the symbol of Palestinian livelihood

    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…