Tag: Gaza
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Iftar at the House of the Ezkadenia
24 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Israel’s latest round of attacks on Gaza has made it too dangerous to demonstrate in the buffer zone. The people of Beit Hanoun do not demonstrate because they want to die, they demonstrate because they want to live. They want to live in dignity, they want to…
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Night of Israeli violence: Al Aqsa Mosque barricade, house demolition, gang beating, arrests
22 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Just after midnight on Monday, August 22 the Israeli military took the opportunity to trap 1500 Palestinian youth inside al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, blow up a house in Hebron (injuring 30 people in the ensuing riots), and arrested a member of the Freedom Theatre in Jenin.…
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Palestinians farming creatively to overcome the ‘buffer zone’
21 August 2011 | Islam Online, Hama Waqum On Nakba Day in May, thousands of Palestinians edged towards Israel’s borders with Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Gaza, demanding their Right of Return, and an end to the Israeli occupation. Many of these protestors would return to demonstrate on the Naksa Day in June. A major…