Tag: Fishermen
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Young Gazan fisherman shot in abdomen
17 March 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza A young curly-haired boy snores solemnly in a hot room in Al-Shifa hospital in central Gaza City. He lays wrapped in a blanket and is connected to a drip. His brothers and cousins sit around his bed on yet another hospital visit. “This is the life we…
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Israeli troops kill Gaza fishermen
17 February 2011 | Al Jazeera Israeli soldiers have killed three Palestinian fishermen along the Gaza-Israeli border, Palestinian medics have said. Gaza’s ministry of health said on Thursday that the men were killed overnight in the north of Gaza, near Beit Lahiya, while they were working with their nets on the shore. The medics said…
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Israeli navy confiscates two boats of abducted fisherman
9 January 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza In one week’s time, the Israeli Navy has twice abducted fishermen from Gazan waters; they were released the same day, but their boats remain confiscated. Abduction of Baker fishermen on January 4th On Tuesday morning, January 4th, Mohammed ‘Abdul Qader Baker (54), Ziad Mohammed Baker (25), Mohammed…
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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…