Tag: Farmers

  • Gaza fishers and farmers: nowhere to go

    Gaza fishers and farmers: nowhere to go

    13th September 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Kevin Neish | Gaza, Occupied Palestine We had a meeting with some leaders in the Gaza commercial fishing industry, to hear their stories and see if or how we can assist them. Gaza Strip fishers have historically been some of the poorest families here, especially as many are not…

  • Video: Gaza: The economy under the siege

    Video: Gaza: The economy under the siege

    24th August 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Gal·la | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Khalil S. Shaheen, Head of the Economic Unit at the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, talks about the Gaza economy under the siege, how the occupation and the siege affect directly the economy, and therefore the development of the oppressed Palestinian people, denying them the…

  • Awad, 19, wounded by Israeli fire while gathering firewood

    Awad, 19, wounded by Israeli fire while gathering firewood

    31st July 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Rosa Schiano | Gaza, Occupied Palestine On Thursday afternoon, July 25, 2013, a 19 year old, Rafat Awad Abdel Aty was injured while working in an area called “Jamarik” near Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip. Awad, who was admitted to the Kamal Odwan hospital, told us…

  • Saturdays under the settlements

    Saturdays under the settlements

    25th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine Saturday is supposed to be a holy day for the Jewish settlers of the illegal colonies in the West Bank; many don’t work, they don’t turn on electrical appliances, they don’t drive cars. But some of the violent and Zionist among them…

  • Palestinian farmer injured by Israeli army fire

    17th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Rosa Schiano | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Friday afternoon, June 14, 2013, Muhareb Abu Omar, a Palestinian farmer aged 48, was wounded by Israeli army fire in the Deir El Balah, in the center of the Gaza Strip. Omar was irrigating his land in the village of Wadi As-Salqa,…