Tag: Gaza Siege
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Palestinian Committee for Breaking the Siege
22nd September 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza team | Gaza, occupied Palestine Yesterday the Palestinian Committee for Breaking the Siege organized an event in Gaza’s port in order to welcome the two boats that left a few days ago from Barcelona and intend to break the siege in the coming weeks. Adham Abu Slimiya…
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Statement concerning Israeli measures against activists
8th August 2016 | International Solidarity Movement The International Solidarity Movement is a Palestinian-led movement with a mandate to support Palestinian nonviolent popular resistance to Israeli military occupation and apartheid. Palestinian-led nonviolent resistance includes the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions of Israel, until it adheres to its obligations under international law. ISM volunteers…
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The Gaza-blockade is causing an end to Gaza’s fresh water resources
7th August 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza-team | occupied Palestine As every year during the summer, the water shortage in the Gaza Strip is accentuated. At the same time, the energy shortage caused by the blockade prevents engines and water pumps from pushing it from wells and tanks to houses and farming fields. The…
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Testimony of one of the latest attacks against Gaza’s fishermen
12th June 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza-team | Gaza Strip, occupied Palestine Last Wednesday Rajab Khaled Abu Riela, 30 years old, his brother and two cousins left Gaza’s port at 12 pm. They stayed out fishing until 1:30 am. “When we started our way back to the port one Israeli warship approached, the soldiers…
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Israeli Forces shoot at family harvesting crops on their land
2nd May 2016 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza team | Gaza, occupied Palestine After more than six months risking their lives while ploughing, planting seeds and weeding their land, and after investing a large amount of money on seeds and on renting a tractor, the Qudaih family from the village of Khuzaa were finally ready to start harvesting their barley and…
