Tag: Fishermen

  • Two fishing boats shot off Gaza coast

    21 June 2011 | International Solidarity Movement At around 9am on June 21, two fishing boats were attacked by the Israeli Navy, with bullets piercing both engines, rendering them unusable. The first boat was shot at in the motor, at the rear end and, when the 4-man crew took cover at the front of the…

  • Israeli gunboat fires on fishermen in Gazan waters

    1 June 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Ramadan Zidan, 51, and his son Mohamed, 20 set sail from the harbor in Gaza at seven in the morning, they didn’t plan to go far, only to fish outside of the harbor. For an hour and half everything went well, it was a beautiful morning and…

  • More than 40 international and local organizations launch Civil Peace Service Gaza

    22 April 2011 | Civil Peace Service Gaza On Wednesday 20th of April, at 11:30 (local time), more than 40 international and local organizations launched a human rights monitoring mission to report potential violations in Palestinian waters. Deploying an international third-party nonviolent Civil Peace Service in Palestinian territorial water is not the initiative of a…