Tag: Gaza
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Photo essay: Gaza joins the Global March to Jerusalem
10th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement | Beit Hanoun, Occupied Palestine Thousands of Palestinians from across the Gaza Strip rallied by the closed Erez checkpoint on Friday, marking al-Naksa (the setback), Israel’s 1967 seizure of the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza Strip, Syria’s Golan Heights, and Sinai Peninsula, ceded to Egypt in 1982. Israel’s…
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Palestinian farmer wounded by Israeli army fire
7th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Rosa Schiano | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Sunday morning a young Palestinian farmer was wounded by Israeli army fire in an area called Abu Safiyeh, East of Jabalia, in the Northern Gaza Strip. The young man, Ahmad Hamdan, 21, was rushed to the hospital Kamal Odwan. We went to…
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Video: Reality of life for fishermen in Gaza – 6 miles of sea
6th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Gal·la | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Zakaria Baker, head of the committee for fishermen in Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) explains the reality for fishermen in Gaza, following Israel re-extending the permitted sailing area for Palestinians from three to six nautical miles. Despite this ‘allowance’, Palestinian fishermen have recently…
