Tag: Civilian Death

  • The Al Dalu family. Never forget.

    by Rosa Schiano 4 December 2012 | il Blog di Olivia On 18 November 2012, on the fifth day of the Israeli military offensive “Pillar of Defence” against Gaza, a war bulletin reported 72 people killed, including 19 children, 670 wounded, most of them women and children. That day, the Israeli air force bombed a…

  • On the sixth day of Israeli attacks on Gaza

    By Rosa Schiano 23 June 2012 | il Blog di Olivia, Gaza The sixth day of Israeli attacks on Gaza. Today we have arrived at 16 deaths, including a child of 5 and a half years, and over 60 injured individuals. This morning in Khan Younis of the southern Gaza Strip an Israeli tank fired…

  • Mahmoud, 19 years old, killed at Erez during Land Day between dreams and hopes: The words of his family

    Mahmoud, 19 years old, killed at Erez during Land Day between dreams and hopes: The words of his family

    by Rosa Schiano 11 April 2012 | il Blog di Oliva On Friday 30th March, during the “Land Day,” Gaza joined the Global March in order to remember the confiscation of Palestinian lands by Israel which were protested against on the 30th March 1976. 6 Palestinians were killed and hundreds were injured. In Gaza this…

  • His story told by his mother: Ayoub Asalya, 12 years old, killed by an Israeli missile

    His story told by his mother: Ayoub Asalya, 12 years old, killed by an Israeli missile

    by Rosa Schiano 19 March 2012 | il Blog di Oliva Ayoub Asalya, 12, was going to school on Sunday morning when he was killed by an Israeli missile. On the walls of his house there is a poster with his image. Ayoub is shown smiling with a cap on his head. “The nights before he…

  • They will never beg

    by Johnny Bravo 19 March 2012  | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza I have read several accounts over the last few days of how life in Southern Israel has become unbearable for the people living there. In retaliation for the latest provocation by Israel over 200 rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel. 11 people were…