Tag: Blockade

  • Beit Hanoun commemorates 3 years since operation ‘Cast Lead’

    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…

  • Israeli navy attacks international observers, injures Palestinian, on monitoring boat in Gaza waters

    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…

  • Merry Christmas from Gaza

    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…