Tag: Beit Lahiya

  • Israeli military shell UNRWA school

    17th January 2009, Beit Lahiya, Gaza: An UNRWA school in Beit Lahiya is being shelled by the Israeli Army. International Human Rights Activists are at the scene, assisting in the evacuation of families to neighboring buildings. Irish Human Rights Activist Caoimhe Butterly said; One UNWRA school was hit this morning. Two young children, ages 4…

  • Interview with Ewa Jasiewicz in Gaza

    11p.m – 28th December 2008: Interview with Ewa Jasiewisz, activist with the Free Gaza Movement, in Gaza, Bayt Lahiya

  • 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…