Tag: Gaza

  • Gaza: young Palestinians lead a global movement

    14 June 2011 | Palestine Chronicle, Joe Catron On a warm, sunny afternoon, I met Eman Sourani and Rana Baker in an airy outdoor café several blocks from the port of Gaza. Both are members of the Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel (PSCABI). Sourani, a 22-year-old English literature student at Al-Aqsa…

  • A call from Gaza in support of the Freedom Flotilla II

    12 June 2011 | Gaza We the Palestinians of the Besieged Gaza Strip, on this day, five years after closures began on Gaza , are saying enough inaction, enough discussion, enough waiting – the full siege on the Gaza Strip must end. Shortly after 2006 democratic election which were supervised by people and bodies from…

  • Walking to the Buffer Zone: Inside the Jail of Gaza

    10 June 2011 | CounterPunch, Johnny Barber We marched to the buffer zone with about 20 others including members of the Beit Hanoun Local Initiative who have been organizing non-violent demonstrations for the past three years, as well as several members of GYBO (Gaza Youth Break Out). Carrying flags and alternately chanting, singing and walking in…

  • Palestinian teenager injured near Gaza border

    7 June 2011 | International Solidarity Movement 19-year-old Mohammed Kafarna was hit in the neck by bullet shrapnel during a weekly non-violent demonstration in Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip. According to the doctor treating him, there were three pieces of metal lodged in his neck, thigh and abdomen. Mohammed is in a stable condition, which will…

  • 22 dead and 360 injured in 5th June Naksa protests

    06 June 2011 | International Solidarity Movement According to the most recent reports 22 civilians were killed and 360 injured yesterday when Israeli soldiers opened fire at protesters marking Naksa day across the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and the Syrian border. The 5th June this year marked the 44th anniversary of the Naksa, or “setback”…