Tag: Gaza

  • Aid agencies denounce Gaza blockade

    Ma’an News 17 June 2009 A group of 38 United Nations and non-governmental organizations issued a denunciation of Israel’s ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip. The groups, which include UNRWA, the United Nations Development Fund for Women and Oxfam International, the amount of goods now allowed into Gaza is still one-quarter of what it was…

  • Gaza fishermen petition High Court

    Aviad Glickman | YNet News 16 June 2009 Four Palestinians from Gaza petitioned the High Court of Justice Tuesday in an effort to get back their confiscated fishing boat, seized by the IDF last month. The fishermen claim that their livelihood had been gravely undermined by Israel’s Defense Ministry and demand compensation in addition to…

  • Bedouin family to search for the body of their missing son

    14 June 2009 A Bedouin teenager – Ahmed Salama Eid Abu Hashish, 18 – from the border area east of Beit Hanoun has been missing since 21st April, 2009. His family believe that he may have been killed in the “buffer zone” – an area of Gaza next to the border that Israeli soldiers attempt…

  • International solidarity activists protest at Rafah border

    The International Campaign to Open the Rafah Border 11 June 2009 The International Movement to Open the Rafah Border continues the campaign at the Rafah gate. The group consists of David Mattacchioni, Italy; Christian Chantegrel, Micheline Garreau, Jacque Denko, France; Paki Wieland, Ellen Graves, and Don Bryant, USA. These international activists have attempted to enter…

  • Israeli navy shoots at Gazan fishermen, no injuries

    Ramattan 12 June 2009 Israeli warships shot at Palestinian fishermen in the northern coast of the Gaza Strip on Friday, Palestinian security sources said. Sources reported that the Israeli navy opened heavy fire against a number of Gazan fishermen and their boats near Al-Sudaniya neighborhood north of Gaza, no injuries or damages were reported. The…