Tag: Buffer Zone

  • Today we planted in Gaza’s buffer zone

    6  September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Strip Today, like every Tuesday in Beit Hanoun, we marched into the buffer zone to protest it and the illegal Israeli occupation.  In many ways it was the same as every Tuesday.  We gathered at the Agricultural College, we marched down the road that leads to the…

  • Palestinians farming creatively to overcome the ‘buffer zone’

    21 August 2011 | Islam Online, Hama Waqum On Nakba Day in May, thousands of Palestinians edged towards Israel’s borders with Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Gaza, demanding their Right of Return, and an end to the Israeli occupation. Many of these protestors would return to demonstrate on the Naksa Day in June. A major…

  • As protesters hold Iftar in the “buffer zone,” Israeli bulldozers sever Gaza’s links with the world

    16 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza On Tuesday, August 9, members of the International Solidarity Movement – Gaza Strip joined the Beit Hanoun Local Initiative for its weekly protest by the Erez Crossing against the Israeli-imposed “buffer zone.” During Ramadan, these protests take the form of Iftars with local farmers threatened by Israeli…