Tag: Buffer Zone

  • Ramadan in the Buffer Zone

    2 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza The buffer zone is a place of death.  300 meters of destroyed land, land that used to be alive, that used to be filled with orchards, houses, and fields, now, all dead.  To enter the buffer zone is to risk your life, even to come close to it, the…

  • Activists pray in Gaza’s buffer zone

    2 August 2011 | Ma’an News Agency GAZA CITY — Popular resistance activists held noon prayers on Tuesday in the “buffer zone” in northern Gaza. International solidarity activists joined dozens of Palestinians to pray on lands recently bulldozed by Israel near Beit Hanoun. Israeli forces impose a “buffer zone” 300 meters from the border inside Gaza.…

  • Beit Hanoun, 63 years and 300 meters later

    19 July 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza The Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, happened sixty three years ago.  The theft of Palestinian land continues even today.  Every Tuesday, for the last three years, the people of Beit Hanoun have protested both the occupation and Israel’s three hundred meter “buffer zone” which Israel has…