Tag: Gaza
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Jubilation and a symbolic act of resistance to the siege: the Gaza boat race
30 July 2010 | ISM Gaza “I call to the whole world to treat us like everybody else, to break the blockade of the sea and of the whole Gaza Strip, so that people will be able to make a living from the sea again”, states the happy winner of the first Gaza boat race,…
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More than 200 demonstrate against the buffer-zone near Gaza’s Nahal Oz crossing
29 July 2010 | ISM Gaza Five International Solidarity Movement volunteers participated in a demonstration against the bufferzone near Nahal Oz border crossing, east of Gaza City on Wednesday (July 28th). The march had a big turn out of over 200 people and was organised by the Popular Campaign for the Security in the Buffer…
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Gaza City ceremony honours journalists killed reporting in Gaza
28 July 2010 | ISM Gaza Journalists killed by Israel while reporting in Gaza were remembered at an award ceremony in Gaza City yesterday; family members and co-workers received a plaque in their honour. Abu Walid Mahmoud Al-Zaq of the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front (PPSF), the group organising the event – on their 43rd anniversary…
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Two dead and four children injured in Israeli nail bomb attack in Beit Hanoun, Gaza
By ISM Gaza | 22 July 2010 “She came in through and it wasn’t clear she was injured. Suddenly a lot of blood came from her nose and she vomited. All of the family saw this – her little brothers were very scared. She had just been playing in the front of the house.” This…
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IDF soldier who shot British peace activist to be released from jail
Anshel Pfeffer | Ha’aretz 19 July 2010 A former IDF soldier who was found guilty of manslaughter in the 2003 shooting death of British peace activist Thomas Hurndall in the Gaza Strip will be released early from prison next month. Taysir-al-Heib was sentenced in 2005 to eight years in prison for manslaughter as well as…