Tag: Gaza

  • Retired professor on epic voyage to honor USS Liberty dead

    7 September 2011 | Arab News GAZA: A retired college professor from the US state of Texas who has sailed approximately 8,000 miles to the eastern Mediterranean in an epic voyage, is heading toward his destination — the exact location where Israeli forces tried to sink a US Navy ship in 1967, killing or injuring…

  • Statement for USS Liberty memorial service

    7 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza This statement was submitted for tonight’s memorial service off the coast of the Gaza Strip. We join Larry Toenjes, Joe and Sherrie Wagner, Rusty Glenn, and all supporters of the s/v Liberty in remembering the deaths of 34 USS Liberty servicemen killed by the State of Israel…

  • Today we planted in Gaza’s buffer zone

    6  September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Strip Today, like every Tuesday in Beit Hanoun, we marched into the buffer zone to protest it and the illegal Israeli occupation.  In many ways it was the same as every Tuesday.  We gathered at the Agricultural College, we marched down the road that leads to the…

  • 13-year-old Gaza boy dies eight days after Israeli airstrike

    1 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza After clinging to life for eight days, 13-year-old Haitham Ahmed Marouf succumbed to injuries received in an Israeli airstrike on Beit Lahia and died on the morning of Monday, August 29. The Palestinian boy had been farming with his father, Ahmed Marouf, on Sunday, August 21. Shortly…

  • Gaza children injured by Israeli airstrike

    19 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Two Palestinian children were wounded when their house, in the Ameer project of Gaza City’s Soudania neighborhood, was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike early in the morning of Friday, August 19. After the building lost power around midnight, ten-year-old Marihan Atif abu Samarah and her five-year-old brother,…