Tag: Fishermen

  • Finding fish, but Israelis too

    Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service 1 July 2009 At 6am on Jun. 16, Sadallah and his brother Abdel Hadi Sadallah, in their early twenties, went roughly 400 metres out to sea off the coast of Sudaniya in Gaza’s northwest. “We wanted to bring in nets we had left out the night before,” says Sadallah.…

  • Over 50 bullets shot towards a fishing boat

    ISM Gaza | Fishing Under Fire 21 June 2009 This video shows a Palestinian fishing boat attacked by the Israeli Navy BEFORE the recent massacres (December 2009, January 2009), that means during the 6 month “CEASEFIRE” (June – December 2008). Finally we counted more than 50 bulletholes! During the interview gunboats of the Israeli Navy…

  • Fishermen abducted and released, three boats and net stolen

    ISM Gaza | Fishing Under Fire 21 June 2009 Two fishermen, Ashraf Subhi Sadallah and his brother Abdulhadhi Subhi Sadallah were abducted by IDF on Tuesday 16th June 2009 and released on the same day after being interrogated. Their boats (hassakas) and net remain in IDF custody to this day. At 6 a.m. the brothers…

  • PCHR: 2 more fishermen abducted by the Israeli Navy

    ISM Gaza | Fishing Under Fire 16 June 2009 At approximately 06:00, IOF gunboats opened fire at a fishing boat in al-Waha area in the northern Gaza Strip. They then moved towards the boat and arrested two fishers: Hadi Sobhi Sa’dallah, 19; and his brother Ashraf, 26. They took the two fisherso Ashdod Harbor in…

  • Gaza fishermen petition High Court

    Aviad Glickman | YNet News 16 June 2009 Four Palestinians from Gaza petitioned the High Court of Justice Tuesday in an effort to get back their confiscated fishing boat, seized by the IDF last month. The fishermen claim that their livelihood had been gravely undermined by Israel’s Defense Ministry and demand compensation in addition to…