Bianca Zammit | ISM Gaza 28 June 2010 On June 17th 2010, the Israeli Cabinet decided to take steps to ease the Israeli-imposed siege on Gaza by allowing more items to enter. These items include mayonnaise, ketchup, chocolate, sweets and ...
Read More »Israeli violence continues in Gaza ‘buffer zone’: wheat harvest prevented; three injured by shelling
International Solidarity Movement 20 June 2010 Five female farm-workers returned to the Gaza ‘buffer zone’ early Saturday morning, with the intention of continuing the wheat harvest near Khoza’a village, Khan Yunis. The harvesters were forced to abandon their work after ...
Read More »Stop the bullets! A call to end the use of live ammunition against unarmed civilians in the Gaza ‘buffer zone’
International Solidarity Movement 19 June 2010 The catastrophic Israeli attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, which left 9 dead, has rightly horrified the international community. However, lethal force by the Israeli military is nothing new to Palestinians. In the Gaza ...
Read More »Wheat harvest met with live ammunition in Gaza “buffer zone”
International Solidarity Movement 13 June 2010 Israeli forces attacked women farmworkers and international human rights activists with heavy gunfire during three days’ wheat harvest in the southern Gaza Strip. The Israel-imposed “buffer zone” illegally claims over 30% of Gaza’s arable ...
Read More »Israel shells Gazan farmers, injuring six
International Solidarity Movement 28 May 2010 Yesterday, Thursday the 27 May ’10, three people were wounded in the Zeytoun neighborhood of Gaza City which was bombed by the Israeli Apache helicopters and six farmers from the same area were wounded ...
Read More »Demonstrations, live fire continue in Gaza Buffer Zone
International Solidarity Movement 29 April 2010 Less than 24 hours after the fatal shooting of Ahmad Sliman Salem Dib, over 100 demonstrators gathered in Rafah, Gaza to protest the Buffer Zone. Marching within 100 meters of the border, the non-violent ...
Read More »Israeli forces kill unarmed demonstrator in Gazan ‘buffer zone’
International Solidarity Movement 28 April 2010 Ahmad Sliman Salem Dib, 19, died of blood loss at 4:30 pm today, following emergency surgery. Dib was shot in the leg by an Israeli sniper at a non-violent demonstration, with more than 200 ...
Read More »Malta protests to Israel over shooting of national in Gaza
Ha’aretz 25 April 2010 Malta filed an official protest with Israel on Sunday after a Maltese woman was shot and injured by Israel Defense Forces soldiers during a protest in Gaza on Saturday. In a statement, the Maltese Foreign Ministry ...
Read More »Israeli forces shoot unarmed demonstrators in Gazan ‘buffer zone’
ISM Gaza 24 April 2010 UPDATE: Video has been added to this post. Please see below El Maghazi, Deir Al Balah, Gaza, Occupied Palestinian Territories, 24th April 2010, 12PM – At a peaceful nonviolent demonstration against the forceful cessation of ...
Read More »Picking pebbles to live somehow
Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service 2 March 2010 They come by the hundreds every day to sand dunes and rubble sites to sift for pebbles, stones and sand that can be used in making concrete blocks. They lean into ...
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