by Nathan Stuckey 1 April 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Al Huda School is a small, private primary school in Khan Yunis. It serves about 400 students, a quarter of them orphans. The school isn’t in the center of ...
Read More »Two Stray Bullets in Gaza
by Johnny Bravo 24 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza On Sunday it was reported that a young boy had been shot on farmland near the Rafah crossing. The details were unclear. Several colleagues and I traveled to Rafah ...
Read More »Sohaib, 6 years old, injured by an Israeli bullet
by Rosa Schiano 20 March 2012 | il Blog di Oliva On Saturday evening around 7pm, Israeli soldiers opened fire on the edge of Karm Abu Salem, east of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. Sohaib Sultan, 6 years old, was playing ...
Read More »Casualties of the last attacks on Gaza: Visit to Shifa Hospital
by Rosa Schiano 15 March 2012 | il Blog di Oliva This morning we went to pay a visit to the wounded at the Shifa Hospital. Most of them have fractures and burns. Hani Al-Qanoo, 15 His mother, Reda, tells that ...
Read More »Burying Nayif Qarmout
13 March 2012 | Nathan Stuckey, International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Nayif Qarmout was killed by an Israeli missile today at 9:30 A.M. He was 14 years old. Five other teenagers with him were injured, Tamer Azzam, 16, Mu’ayyad al-Qanou’, 18, ...
Read More »Nedal, 14 years old, collected metal to support his family – they shot him from behind
by Rosa Schiano 13 December 2011 | il blog di Oliva This morning at the Eretz border in Beit Hanoun, Israeli soldiers shot a 14-year-old boy, Nedal Khaleel Hamdan. We went to the hospital to meet him. We found him sitting ...
Read More »New report documents children under fire in Gaza
13 December 2011 | AlertNet Twenty-eight cases of children being shot at by the border fence between Israel and the Gaza strip whilst gathering building materials like gravel, or working by the fence, have been documented by Defence for Children ...
Read More »In Photos: Balata cleans up for a place to run free
by Amal 3 December 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank It is hard to describe the joy of a simple yet so meaningful clean up day, and the beauty of children playing in a stress-free environment. We joined residents ...
Read More »Eid children’s fair in Beit Hanoun
by Radhika S. 6 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza In the afternoon, we went to a special Eid children’s fair at a park in Beit Hanoun, in the north of the Gaza Strip. Fifty percent of the population ...
Read More »Israeli soldiers “are the law:” The detainment of children
by Emma and Becka 29 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Thursday October 29, in Huwarra, around 3:00PM, soldiers detained busses and services for no apparent reasons. The busses that were stopped were filled with children going ...
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