Tag: Gaza

  • Three cousins die in Gaza tunnel collapse

    30 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Shortly after 5:00 pm on Sunday, September 25, three Palestinians died when sewage leaking from an Egyptian pipeline caused a tunnel connecting the Egyptian and Palestinian sides of the Rafah border, in which they were working, to collapse. It was the second time that the pipeline, which…

  • International activists in Gaza defiant despite repeated attacks

    26 September 2011 | Islam Online, Hama Waqum The Civil Peace Service (CPS) Gaza human rights observation boat has returned to the waters off the Gazan coast after being grounded for two months due to Israeli naval attacks. CPS Gaza aims to monitor human rights violations committed off the coast of Gaza, in which Gazan fishermen…

  • Gaza court questions accused in death of Italian

    22 September 2011 | AFP GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories — A Gaza military court on Thursday played the alleged confessions of four men accused in the April kidnap and murder of Italian peace activist Vittorio Arrigoni. Of the four men, all from Gaza, two are accused of murder, a third of having helped in the kidnap…