by Rosa Schiano 21 December 2011 | Civil Peace Service Gaza The Oliva sailed from Gaza Seaport at 8:15 am. The Palestinian captain and two international observers from CPS staff were on boardAt 8:45 am Oliva reached four hasakas in ...
Read More »Israeli navy harasses Palestinian fishermen, international observers off Gaza coast
3 December 2011 | Civil Peace Service Gaza On Saturday, 3 December 2011, the Israeli navy harassed Palestinian fishermen and international observers three miles off the coast of Gaza. Between 10:00 and 11:00 am, two warships repeatedly charged a group ...
Read More »A day with fugitives in Gaza’s fishing waters
by Lydia de Leeuw 2 December 2011 | A Second Glance It’s 6.30am when Ahmad’s fishing boat leaves the Gaza City fishing port. Together with his three nephews and a friend, he will stay at sea for 48 hours, trying ...
Read More »Israeli navy shoots Palestinian fisherman who sued Israel, kidnaps at least nine others in Gazan waters
by Radhika Sainath 30 November 2011 | Notes from Behind the Blockade The Israeli navy violently seized two Palestinian trawlers in Gazan waters yesterday, shooting one fisherman in the arm, and ultimately forcing at least ten men to Ashod, Israel, ...
Read More »A day at sea with Gaza’s fishermen
by Lydia de Leeuw 26 November 2011 | A Second Glance
Read More »Israeli navy hunts Gaza fishermen
24 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Video of our international human rights observation boat outrunning the Israeli navy as it attempts to fire a watercannon on Palestinian fishing boats under 3 miles out to sea. Publicly, Israel ‘allows’ ...
Read More »Gaza lives on
16 November 2011 | Al Jazeera English The Israeli blockade may have taken a heavy toll on Gazans, but this film reveals life and hope among the devastation. Since 2007, most of the approximately 1.5 million Palestinians living in the ...
Read More »Israeli navy kidnaps two Palestinian children and uncle fishing in Gazan waters
by Radhika S. 12 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Seventeen-year-old Abdul Qader Baker still has no idea why the Israeli navy surrounded his small fishing boat at 4 a.m. Thursday morning, ordered him, his 17-year-old cousin Mohamed Baker, ...
Read More »Fishing in Gaza – no day at the beach
24 October 2011 | Notes from Behind the Blockade I saw an Israeli naval warship for the first time yesterday, a concrete monster the color of ash, guzzling up the Mediterranean and spurting it out in its wake. I rose ...
Read More »International activists in Gaza defiant despite repeated attacks
26 September 2011 | Islam Online, Hama Waqum The Civil Peace Service (CPS) Gaza human rights observation boat has returned to the waters off the Gazan coast after being grounded for two months due to Israeli naval attacks. CPS Gaza aims ...
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