Tag: Fishermen

  • Protests in Northern Gaza

    15 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza  The Palmer Report, recently released by the United Nations, was a moral travesty. It asserted that the naval blockade of Gaza was somehow separate from the land siege of Gaza.  The Palmer Report was an attempt to break up the oppression of Gaza into bite size morsels…

  • Gaza fishermen swamped by Israeli gunboats and water cannon

    24 July 2011 | The Guardian, Harriet Sherwood Hani al-Asi, a fisherman since the age of 11 and a father with 12 mouths to feed, had just begun throwing his lines into the Mediterranean when an Israeli gunboat sped towards his traditional hasaka. With a machine gun mounted at the rear and half a dozen…

  • IDF shoots live ammunition at ISM activists at sea

    24 July 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza On Saturday the ISM crew for CPS Gaza rode out on the trawler that rescued us during the second attack on the Oliva on Thursday, July 14th.  As I mentioned before, the Oliva project is currently on an indefinite hiatus.  Nils, Joe and I went to the…

  • Human rights workers continues to face Israeli aggression in Gazan waters

    20 July 2011 | Civil Peace Service Gaza The Israeli navy attacked Civil Peace Service Gaza volunteers along with international press and Palestinian fishermen today. One of the Israeli ships targeted the boats with high pressure water cannons. Meanwhile, a small naval boat approached the Oliva and hit it from behind, stopping the boat and…

  • Gaza fishermen defy naval blockade

    20 July 2011 | Al Jazeera Emboldened by the ‘Freedom Flotilla’s’ attempt to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza by sea, some Gazan fishermen have been trying to sail beyond the three nautical mile limit imposed by Israel. The Oslo Accords allowed fishermen to work within 20 nautical miles of the coast, but Israel later reduced…