Tag: Blockade
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Resistance continues, demonstration in the No Go Zone
by Nathan Stuckey 11 January 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Every Tuesday we gather in front of the Beit Hanoun Agricultural College, members of the Beit Hanoun Local Initiative, the International Solidarity Movement and other activists from all over Gaza. We gather, and we march into the no go zone. Sometimes we are shot…
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Beit Hanoun commemorates 3 years since operation ‘Cast Lead’
by Rosa Schiano 7 January 2012 | il blog di Oliva On Tuesday there was another demonstration in Beit Hanoun against the “buffer zone” imposed by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip. The demonstrators also commemorated the over 1400 Palestinians killed during operation “Cast Lead”. The demonstration started at about 11.00 am. A drone…
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Israeli navy attacks international observers, injures Palestinian, on monitoring boat in Gaza waters
28 December 2011 | Civil Peace Service Gaza At 10:55 am, an Israeli naval warship attacked the international observers and Palestinian captain of the Civil Peace Service Gaza (CPSGAZA) boat Oliva, injuring its captain in an apparent attempt to capsize it. “The Israeli navy passed near us and the fishermen, and started to go around…
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Merry Christmas from Gaza
by Shahd Abusalama 25 December 2011 | Palestine from My Eyes When I was a very young girl, I used to climb the window and stretch my arm out, trying to collect some rain in my small hand, then sip it, believing that it was the purest ever. I remembered this as I was listening…
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Christmas in Gaza
by Ruqaya Izzidien 24 December 2011 | Al Akhbar English This Christmas marks the third anniversary of the 2008-2009 Israeli war on the Gaza Strip; a winter in which 19-year-old Ramy El Jelda saw his home bombed just two days after Christmas. He returned to the site a couple of days later to find his…
