Tag: Gaza

  • Turkey Gaza flotilla probe: five shot dead at close range

    13 February 2011 | Haaretz A Turkish government inquiry into Israel’s raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla that killed eight Turks and a Turkish-American says Israeli soldiers shot five victims at close range. Turkey released details of its formal inquiry into the May 31 incident Friday, hours after submitting the report to a United Nations panel…

  • Drug store set on fire and classes suspended in school heavily damaged by Israeli bombing

    09 February 2011 | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the targeting of civilian establishments in the Gaza Strip by aircraft of the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) early this morning. Ten Palestinians, including two women and a child, were wounded as a result of the bombing. In…

  • Prisoners’ relatives protest against Israeli detention

    3 February 2011 | International Solidarity Movement Ahmed Youssef Al Ahnan was but a child of 17 when he was arrested six years ago in his aunt’s house by the beach of Khan Younis. “I still don’t know why they took my boy. How is it possible that they can arrest a child just like…

  • Daily life in Gaza

    4 February 2011 | Nathan Stuckey, International Solidarity Movement Gaza After spending six weeks waiting in Cairo I entered Gaza two weeks ago. I never would have guessed that Egypt would explode so soon after I left. Congratulations to the people of Egypt. The trip from Cairo to the border at Rafah was uneventful; we…

  • Another young stone-collector is killed in Gaza

    20 January 2011 / International Solidarity Movement, Vera Macht It had been only eight days since the last innocent was killed. People die here one after another, killed one by one, without consequences, without justice, without an outcry in the media. Innocent civilians trying to make a living amidst the stifling four-year siege. Palestinian civilians,…