Tag: Farmers
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Israel shells Gaza again: 3 farm workers killed including a 91 year old and his grandson
13 September 2010 | ISM Gaza When 91 year old Ibrahim Abu Sayed left his home near Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza, yesterday morning, in order to check on his land and his animals which graze next to the remains of his former home, he took with him his 17-year-old grandson Hossam and the young…
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UN report: IDF barring Gazans’ access to farms, fishing zones
19 August 2010 | Haaretz Humanitarian affairs office: Israel restricts entry to 17% of Gaza lands, 85% of beachfront zone, enforces restrictions with live fire. Over the last ten years, the Israel Defense Forces have increasingly restricted Palestinian access to farmland on the Gazan side of the Israeli-Gaza border as well as to fishing zones…
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Live ammunition used on demonstrators in Gaza who move a section of the buffer-zone fence
18 August 2010 | ISM Gaza On Tuesday morning a demonstration in Gaza by Palestinian activists from Local Initiative Beit Hanoun, with four International Solidarity Movement volunteers and other international activists and journalists was met with live ammunition fired by the Israeli army. Soldiers opened fire on protestors in the buffer zone in Beit Hanoun,…