Tag: Gaza

  • Children and youth under fire in Gaza: two killed and more than ten injured

    13 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza WARNING: Contains graphic images some may find disturbing. On Friday April 8th at approximately 5.30 pm a drone dropped a bomb on a group of children and young people who were playing football next to a school in the Al-Shijaija neighborhood, east of Gaza City, near the…

  • We left Gaza city early …

    13 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza We left Gaza city early; we were going to Faraheen, a small village near the buffer zone to help farmers plant peppers. Israel has declared a 300 meter “buffer zone” along the entire border with Gaza. What does the buffer zone mean? Simply, that Israel will shoot…

  • Gaza under attack: death and destruction in Rafah

    10 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza On the afternoon of Thursday April 7th, Israeli forces escalated their attacks on the Gaza Strip. The murderous offensive has killed 18 people so far, the majority of them being civilians. Among the massacred are a mother, her daughter, two children, two elderly men and four members…

  • A new Israeli massacre in Gaza

    09 April 2011 | One Democratic State Group, Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel, University Teachers’ Association in Palestine, Association of Al-Quds Bank for Culture and Information Besieged Gaza, Occupied Palestine. The latest round of Israeli massacres committed against the people of Gaza has resulted in the brutal killings since Thursday afternoon…

  • Five Palestinians killed, 40 injured by Israeli missiles in Gaza

    08 April 2011 | Palestine News Network Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Thursday that five Palestinians were killed and at least 40 residents, including children, were wounded in several Israeli air strikes and a ground attacks that were initiated on Thursday at noon. A fighter of the Al Qassam Brigades, the…