International Solidarity Movement Nonviolence. Justice. Freedom. 1 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza After clinging to life for eight days, 13-year-old Haitham Ahmed Marouf succumbed to injuries received in an Israeli airstrike on Beit Lahia and died on the morning of Monday, August 29. The ...
Read More »Two killed in bombing of al-Salama sport club in Beit Lahia
25 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza At about 1:30 A.M. on August 25, 2011 Israeli warplanes bombed the Salama Sports Club in Beit Lahia. The building was empty at the time. The sports club, however, is in the ...
Read More »Israeli troops kill Gaza fishermen
17 February 2011 | Al Jazeera Israeli soldiers have killed three Palestinian fishermen along the Gaza-Israeli border, Palestinian medics have said. Gaza’s ministry of health said on Thursday that the men were killed overnight in the north of Gaza, near ...
Read More »Three injured as Israeli army fires upon rock collectors
06 February 2011 | International Solidarity Movement Forty-five year old Abdallah Rabea Odwan works as a rock collector around Beit Lahiya. On the morning of 6th February, he and many others were working outside Abu Samra, around 700 meters from ...
Read More »Israeli military kills shepherd in Beit Lahya
24 December 2010 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Yesterday morning Salama Abu Hashish, 20 years, was herding his sheep and goats in Beit Lahya, in northern Gaza, when the Israeli Occupation Forces shot him without any warning. The bullet hit ...
Read More »DCI: Child blown to pieces, one maimed and two injured in drone attack
Defense for Children International On 7 January 2009, Husam Sobuh (11) decided to bring more food, blankets and clothes to the UNRWA school in Beit Lahiya, where he was taking refuge with his family. On his way, he met with ...
Read More »Israeli forces shoot at Gaza bird-catchers, farmers
Eva Bartlett | The Electronic Intifada 20 November 2009 On 15 November at 8:30am, a number of young men went as usual to the land near Gaza’s northern border with Israel planning to catch birds. Amjad Hassanain, 27, was among ...
Read More »Gazan fishermen protest against Israeli Navy attacks
ISM Gaza | Fishing Under Fire 2 April 2009 On the 2nd of April, dozens of fishermen from the Salateen area in Beit Lahiya in the far north of Gaza, staged a march towards the coast to protest against recent ...
Read More »All we’ve got left of him
Eva Bartlett | In Gaza 2 February 2009 Abdul Rahman Ghraben’s mother carried in a yellow plastic bag. “This is his pant leg, and tiny pieces of him,” she said, holding the knotted bag at the handles. Her husband had ...
Read More »el Amoudi homeless
Eva Bartlett | In Gaza “Bissa flora,” he said. “Taste it, it’s delicious!” “It’s used for stomach ailments, and is extremely healthy. Has vitamins A, B, C and D,” Osama translated for me. The botanist sat by his tree, his ...
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