25th January 2014 | Corporate Watch, Tom Anderson and Therezia Cooper | Gaza, Occupied Palestine In the Gaza Strip there is no escape from Israel’s drones. Nicknameed ‘zenana’by Palestinians because of their noisy buzzing, the drones (remote control aircraft) are omnipresent. Sometimes ...
Read More »Photos and video: Israeli forces’ gunfire blocks Palestinian farmland in Gaza
22nd January 2014 | Resistenza Quotidiana, Sil | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Since the Zionist occupation forces’ bulldozers had destroyed part of Khaled Qudaih’s field in Khuza’a, east of Khan Younis, he and his family went out to sow it again. The military responded ...
Read More »Gaza’s economy shattered by Israeli siege
15th January 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Rosa Schiano | Gaza, Occupied Palestine A recent report by the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture in Gaza says the Israeli authorities have closed Karm Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) checkpoint, the Gaza Strip’s only ...
Read More »Palestinian fisherman kidnapped by the Israeli navy in Gaza waters
11th January 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Rosa Schiano | Gaza, Occupied Palestine On Wednesday, 8th January 2014, 27-year-old Palestinian fisherman Mohammed Sultan Al Khader had was arrested by the Israeli navy in Gaza waters. He had been fishing with his two ...
Read More »Israel’s attacks on Palestinian fishermen in Gaza flout international conventions
7th January 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Charlie Andreasson | Gaza, Occupied Palestine On Saturday, 4th January, the Israeli navby shot at five fishermen and their boat, a hasaka, three nautical miles from the shore of Gaza, well within the ...
Read More »Gaza fishermen suffer 85 percent income loss as Israeli siege, attacks continue
4th January 2014 | The Electronic Intifada, Joe Catron | Gaza City, Occupied Palestine On 17 December, Palestinian fishermen and their supporters erected a tent — a traditional venue for protest, as well as celebration and mourning — inside the Gaza seaport. “It was to ...
Read More »Metaphor in Gaza
23rd December 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Charlie Andreasson | Gaza, Occupied Palestine You stand below a dam because you have discovered cracks where water leaks out. You try to seal them with your bare hands, but they are not ...
Read More »Gaza: “Free the Holy Land sea”
23rd December 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Rosa Schiano | Gaza, Occupied Palestine “Free the Holy Land sea” was a three-day protest by fishermen in Gaza which began on Tuesday, 17th November. The fishermen, supported by the Palestinian Center for ...
Read More »Palestinian child wounded by Israeli gunfire while harvesting potatoes in Gaza
17th December 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Rosa Schiano | Gaza, Occupied Palestine On Sunday, 15th December, a young Palestinian was injured by Israeli gunfire in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. Mohammed el-Shanbary, age 17, was harvesting potatoes. ...
Read More »Besieged Gaza Strip battered by historic storm
16th December 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Silvia Todeschini and Henni | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Gaza’s bad weather has disrupted access lines and flooded whole areas. Thousands of families have been evacuated. Numerous injuries and two deaths have been reported. The ...
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