Tag: Buffer Zone
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Israel’s crackdown on the border area injures four more
11 December 2010 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza The Israeli Offensive Forces are cracking down on people working in the buffer zone. In the past two weeks 20 people have been shot, four of whom were children. Today the atrocities continued: this morning three people were injured in Beit Lahiya; in Khuza’a, near Khan Younis,…
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Shootings in Gaza ‘buffer zone’ continue
4 December 2010 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza On Saturday, the 4th of December 2010, three people were shot and injured at the northern border near to Bait Lahya. All of them sustained multiple fractures that required surgery, and two of them were hit with ‘dum-dum’ bullets, which explode on impact. The three of them…
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Four more workers shot in Gaza buffer zone: an ordinary day in Gaza
5 December 2010 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza On Tuesday, the 30th of November 2010, four different individuals were wounded by Israeli gunshots while trying to make their living in the only way they could given the desperation in Gaza’s current economy. Ismael Sa’aed Qapeen, 31 years old, was doing his daily work collecting stones…
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Buffer zone attacks continue: three more workers shot
28 November 2010 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza The northern border area of the Strip is for the second day under attack of IOF snipers. Yesterday three people were shot, including a 12 year old boy, leaving one man in a critical condition. Today three more people were injured by Israeli gunfire while working in…
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Gazan rubble collectors shot by Israeli forces
27 November 2010 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Khalid Ashraf Abosita, 22 years, is in a critical condition after being shot by the Israeli Offensive Forces in Beit Hanoun, a city on the north-east edge of the Gaza Strip. He is currently hospitalized in Shifa hospital in Gaza City. At 6 pm, more than three…