Tag: Gaza City
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Israel bombs central Gaza City: seventeen injured
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Israel bombs central Gaza City; seventeen injured Gaza City, Gaza Strip 31 July 2010 At around 11:30pm last night (Friday 30 July 2010), ‘The Arafat Compound’ Police College in central Gaza City was bombed by Israeli F-16s, in the area of ‘Al Montada’ injuring seventeen people, three of them seriously. Three children…
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Gaza City ceremony honours journalists killed reporting in Gaza
28 July 2010 | ISM Gaza Journalists killed by Israel while reporting in Gaza were remembered at an award ceremony in Gaza City yesterday; family members and co-workers received a plaque in their honour. Abu Walid Mahmoud Al-Zaq of the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front (PPSF), the group organising the event – on their 43rd anniversary…
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Israel shells Gazan farmers, injuring six
International Solidarity Movement 28 May 2010 Yesterday, Thursday the 27 May ’10, three people were wounded in the Zeytoun neighborhood of Gaza City which was bombed by the Israeli Apache helicopters and six farmers from the same area were wounded by the tank artillery fire while farming near the border. This morning (Friday 28th), two…
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Life is blind
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 5 May 2009 In this series of personal testimonies, PCHR looks at the aftermath of Israel’s 23 day offensive on the Gaza Strip, and the ongoing impact it is having on the civilian population. Mahmoud Mattar spent his 15th birthday in February this year, lying in the intensive care unit…
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Another two children killed by Israeli explosive in the Gaza Strip
Mohammed Hiji and Ahmed Ishnayawra, both 14 years old according to medical sources, were killed in Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza city, on Saturday 21st of March by what is suspected to be Israeli ordinance, left unexploded after January’s invasion. Mohammed was in the store, where he was working to support his family, as his father…