Tag: Beit Hanoun

  • 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…

  • Iftar at the House of the Ezkadenia

    24 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Israel’s latest round of attacks on Gaza has made it too dangerous to demonstrate in the buffer zone. The people of Beit Hanoun do not demonstrate because they want to die, they demonstrate because they want to live. They want to live in dignity, they want to…

  • As protesters hold Iftar in the “buffer zone,” Israeli bulldozers sever Gaza’s links with the world

    16 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza On Tuesday, August 9, members of the International Solidarity Movement – Gaza Strip joined the Beit Hanoun Local Initiative for its weekly protest by the Erez Crossing against the Israeli-imposed “buffer zone.” During Ramadan, these protests take the form of Iftars with local farmers threatened by Israeli…

  • Ramadan in the Buffer Zone

    2 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza The buffer zone is a place of death.  300 meters of destroyed land, land that used to be alive, that used to be filled with orchards, houses, and fields, now, all dead.  To enter the buffer zone is to risk your life, even to come close to it, the…

  • Activists pray in Gaza’s buffer zone

    2 August 2011 | Ma’an News Agency GAZA CITY — Popular resistance activists held noon prayers on Tuesday in the “buffer zone” in northern Gaza. International solidarity activists joined dozens of Palestinians to pray on lands recently bulldozed by Israel near Beit Hanoun. Israeli forces impose a “buffer zone” 300 meters from the border inside Gaza.…