Tag: Buffer Zone

  • Gaza: Planting in something dead

    5 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza  Around Gaza is a 300 meter “buffer zone,” a no go zone, a land of death.  Gaza is not just a prison, it is a shrinking prison.  Every time that Israel expands this zone, Gaza gets a little smaller.  Every Tuesday, the Beit Hanoun Local Initiative and…

  • Gaza: 29 years later, Palestinians march forward

    22 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza For three years the Beit Hanoun Local Initiative and the International Solidarity Movement have marched into the buffer zone north of Beit Hanoun.  Tuesday, September 20th was no different.  We gathered near the agricultural college, and at 11 AM we marched north into the buffer zone.  There…

  • Protests in Northern Gaza

    15 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza  The Palmer Report, recently released by the United Nations, was a moral travesty. It asserted that the naval blockade of Gaza was somehow separate from the land siege of Gaza.  The Palmer Report was an attempt to break up the oppression of Gaza into bite size morsels…