Tag: Gaza
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Gazan scrap collector faces death during Israeli incursion
28 December 2010 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza This morning Mahmoud Mousa Mohammed Al Sirsik, aged 19, was going about his daily business, collecting stones with his horse cart in the border area, east of Gaza City, when Israeli army jeeps entered the area. Seeing the danger approaching, Mahmoud tried to run away, but found…
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Beit Hanoun demonstration commemorates Cast Lead massacre
28 December 2010 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza A demonstration commemorating the beginning of “Operation Cast Lead” was held Tuesday in the Gazan city of Beit Hanoun. Families of victims were in attendance, as were 5 International Solidarity Movement activists. Two years have passed since the Israeli attacks on Gaza, which killed over 1400 people…
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Israeli military kills shepherd in Beit Lahya
24 December 2010 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Yesterday morning Salama Abu Hashish, 20 years, was herding his sheep and goats in Beit Lahya, in northern Gaza, when the Israeli Occupation Forces shot him without any warning. The bullet hit his back and went straight through one of his kidneys. He had surgery and was…
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Israel’s crackdown on the border area injures four more
11 December 2010 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza The Israeli Offensive Forces are cracking down on people working in the buffer zone. In the past two weeks 20 people have been shot, four of whom were children. Today the atrocities continued: this morning three people were injured in Beit Lahiya; in Khuza’a, near Khan Younis,…
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Latest Israeli bombing plunges Gaza into darkness
10 December 2010 | The Electronic Intifada, Rami Almeghari Air strikes by Israeli warplanes at dawn on Thursday caused serious damage to the Gaza Strip’s only power plant, plunging the territory — which already suffers from frequent outages — into darkness. Media reports said the air strikes hit two sites belonging to Hamas near the…