Tag: Beit Lahiya
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13-year-old Gaza boy dies eight days after Israeli airstrike
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 Palestinian boy had been farming with his father, Ahmed Marouf, on Sunday, August 21. Shortly…
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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 middle of a residential area. Two people from a neighboring house were killed in the…
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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 Beit Lahiya, while they were working with their nets on the shore. The medics said…
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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 the border, when they were fired upon by Israeli soldiers. Abdallah was hit once below…
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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 his back and went straight through one of his kidneys. He had surgery and was…