Tag: Fishermen

  • The high cost of living

    Sharon Lock | Tales to Tell 13 March 2009 Excerpt from ‘The high cost of living’ The price of fish… Yesterday I went to the Kabariti family for Friday lunch, a fish barbeque. I took with me three of the “letters from the world” that were delivered by the Free Gaza boat last year. These…

  • Israeli gunboat sprays Palestinian fishing boat with bullets

    27th January 2009, Gaza: On the morning of the 27th of January 2009, a Palestinian fishing boat left Gaza City port in one of the first attempts to work after the recent onslaught on Gaza, and the following ceasefire announced by Israel. While fishing in Palestinian territorial waters, about 1 mile off the northern Gaza…

  • Israeli navy wounds Palestinian fisherman

    26th January 2009 – Gazan territorial waters: Despite a ceasefire, and despite the fact that their target was a civilian vessel, the Israeli navy open fire on a Palestinian fishing boat to the severe injury of the captain Alaa Alhabel.