Tag: Beit Hanoun

  • Kite flying in Beit Hanoun

    29 June 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Every Tuesday morning there is a demonstration against the Occupation in Beit Hanoun, when people march into the buffer zone, demand an end to the occupation, and are met with more bullets from the occupation.  Today was different and yet the same; today we didn’t go into the…

  • Demonstration in Beit Hanoun

    21 June 2011 | International Solidarity Movement At 11 A.M. this morning we gathered for the weekly demonstration against the occupation in Beit Hanoun.  This demonstration was different from the other demonstrations though.  Today, a troupe of young girls were joining us.  The girls were part of the Vittorio Arrigoni summer camp that had been organized by the…

  • Walking to the Buffer Zone: Inside the Jail of Gaza

    10 June 2011 | CounterPunch, Johnny Barber We marched to the buffer zone with about 20 others including members of the Beit Hanoun Local Initiative who have been organizing non-violent demonstrations for the past three years, as well as several members of GYBO (Gaza Youth Break Out). Carrying flags and alternately chanting, singing and walking in…

  • Palestinian teenager injured near Gaza border

    7 June 2011 | International Solidarity Movement 19-year-old Mohammed Kafarna was hit in the neck by bullet shrapnel during a weekly non-violent demonstration in Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip. According to the doctor treating him, there were three pieces of metal lodged in his neck, thigh and abdomen. Mohammed is in a stable condition, which will…

  • Palestinians in Gaza march for return on Naksa Day

    5 June 2011 | International Solidarity Movement Hundreds of Palestinian refugees rallied outside the Erez Crossing in Beit Hanoun today to demand the right to return to the homes from which they and their families were ethnically cleansed by Zionist militias and Israeli military forces beginning in 1947. They were joined by other Palestinians and…