Tag: Beit Hanoun

  • It’s really hard to post from here

    By Eva Bartlett ingaza.wordpress.com Every time I manage to make it back to Gaza to write for a period, a new calamity. “They’re shelling Awda hospital,” in Jabaliya, the news reports. Our internationals there at the moment report it was two shells at a police post next to the hospital, one hospital worker getting shrapnel…

  • ISM Gaza reports from the Olive Harvest Campaign 2008 in the ‘buffer zone’

    This is a compilation of reports of Olive Harvest in Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya, 11th, 13th, 16th & 30th October. Video by Fida Qishta. ISM Gaza Strip volunteers living in the Gaza Strip have been assisting farmers living in the Buffer Zone areas of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya with their olive harvest during…

  • When Killings Don’t Count: A Week of Israeli Restraint

    By Tanya Reinhart In Israeli discourse, Israel is always the side exercising restraint in its conflict with the Palestinians. This was true again for the events of the past week: As the Qassam rockets were falling on the Southern Israeli town of Sderot, it was “leaked” that the Israeli Minister of Defense had directed the…