Tag: Gaza

  • International activists accompany Gazan farmers

    ISM Gaza 31 January 2010 Farmers form the villages of Faraheen and Khuza’a , near Gaza’s second biggest city of Khan Younis, reported to the ISM that routine ‘sweeps’ which Israelis carry out along the the border , disrupted the sowing of the wheat in the last few days available after the recent rainfall. Twice…

  • Our last port is freedom: Sending a flotilla to break the siege of Gaza

    Free Gaza Movement 30 January 2010 For immediate release: Yesterday the Free Gaza Movement and the Turkish Relief Foundation (IHH) announced a joint venture, sending 10 boats in the spring of 2010 to the besieged Gaza strip. Organizations from Greece, Ireland and Sweden have also promised to send boats to join the flotilla with the…

  • “Together we can end this occupation”

    Jody McIntyre | The Electronic Intifada 29 January 2010 The Israeli military recently dropped hundreds of leaflets warning Palestinian residents from the village of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip not to travel within 300 meters of the border – the distance of Israel’s so-called “buffer zone.” In response, local activists marched to and…

  • Open Rafah for Ayman – a request for solidarity and a signature

    January 25, 2009 Together we can make a difference for Ayman, together we can make a difference for Palestine Please sign the petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/salam123/petition.html Ayman Talal E. Quader is a Palestinian that was born on July 19, 1986 in Gaza and has lived in Gaza City for his entire life. As a young Palestinian student…

  • Israeli forces shoot at farmers and internationals in Gaza

    ISM Gaza 21 January 2010 On Thursday 21 January ’10, tree ISM volunteers accompanied five farmers form the village of Abu Tayima in the Khouzaa area near Khan Younis, to their land near the Israeli border. A long awaited rainfall in Gaza several days ago created good conditions for wheat sowing on this dangerous plot…