Tag: Gaza

  • PCHR: 2 more fishermen abducted by the Israeli Navy

    ISM Gaza | Fishing Under Fire 16 June 2009 At approximately 06:00, IOF gunboats opened fire at a fishing boat in al-Waha area in the northern Gaza Strip. They then moved towards the boat and arrested two fishers: Hadi Sobhi Sa’dallah, 19; and his brother Ashraf, 26. They took the two fisherso Ashdod Harbor in…

  • Rotting in the ‘buffer zone’

    ISM Gaza | Farming Under Fire 18 June 2009 Ahmed Abu Hashish, a Bedouin teenager of 18 years from a rural community in the northern Gaza Strip had been missing for 54 days. A shepherd then noticed a murder of crows on a patch of land from which there was also a foul stench emanating,…

  • Attack on water brings sanitation crisis

    Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service 18 June 2009 While diminishing water resources are a global concern, in Palestine the struggle for water is not against global warming or multinational corporations, but for access to water, and against contamination of what precious resources there are. Mohamed Ahmed, director of the Water Control Department in the…

  • Viva Palestina: our convoy to Gaza

    George Galloway | Counter Punch 10 June 2009 “Where is the ummah; where is this Arab world they tell us about in school.” Those words will forever remain etched on my brain. They were spoken by a 10 year old girl in a bombed out ruin in Gaza in March. She had lost her almost…

  • Gaza’s hospitals short of surgeons and supplies

    Eva Bartlett | Electronic Intifada 11 June 2009 One of the most densely populated places on earth only has two cardiac surgeons to serve its entire population. According to Dr. Nasser Tatter, head of Shifa hospital’s cardiology unit, that only explains part of the medical crisis that exists in the Gaza Strip today. “We are…