Tag: Gaza

  • ISM Gaza accompanies Palestinian farmers

    Israel’s Open-Fire Policy: shooting the donkey (as an old woman hides behind it) Resisting the Zionist Gun – Part 1: Letaemat 07/05/2009 Resisting the Zionist Gun – Part 2: Letaemat 09/05/2009 Harvest in the Automated Kill Zone, Part 1 – Khoza’a 21/05/2009 Harvest in the Automated Kill Zone, Part 2 – Khoza’a 24/05/2009

  • Well-watered and soldier-free: the good old days on Palestinian farmland

    Eva Bartlett | In Gaza 23 July 2009 The young farm worker wasn’t oblivious to the danger: working in the Israeli-imposed “buffer zone” is no task for the faint-hearted. But, like so many, he either needed the paid labour, or his family depends on the land. The farmers had returned two days after their land…

  • Lebanese urged to help break Gaza siege

    Josie Ensor | The Daily Star 24 July 2009 A Lebanese human rights worker with the Free Gaza Movement made a plea on Thursday for Lebanon to show solidarity over the issue of the Palestinian right of return and play a more active role in breaking the siege. Natalie Abou Shakra, who returned Wednesday from…

  • Farmers and ISM Human Rights Workers to repair damaged well

    ISM Gaza | Farming Under Fire 23 July 2009 Thursday 23rd July 2009 at 8am – Farmers from Abassan Jeddida (East of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip)and human rights workers from the International Solidarity movement will be repairing a damaged water well in Palestinian farmland. On Tuesday 21st July, four Israeli tanks and…

  • Stolen Beauty: the struggle for a just peace in the Middle East coming to a store near you

    Code Pink 21 July 2009 As the dust settled on the destroyed homes, schools and lives in the aftermath of Israel’s assault on Gaza earlier this year, mainstream human rights groups from Amnesty International to Physicians for Human Rights/Israel issued reports condemning Israel’s attack and alleging that the Israeli government and the Israeli Defense Forces…