Tag: Gaza

  • ‘I was born Palestinian’

    Laila El-Haddad | A Mother from Gaza 14 April 2009 “Its not very comfortable in there is it?” said the stony faced official, cigarette smoke forming a haze around his gleaming oval head. “Its OK. We’re fine” I replied wearily, delirious after being awake for a straight period of 30 hours. “You could be in…

  • Testimonies of abducted Gazan fishermen

    ISM Gaza | Fishing Under Fire 13 April 2009 These testimonies were given to ISM Gaza Strip volunteers on April 9th 2009 Izhaq Mohammed Zayed, 46 On Monday 6th April 2009, Izhaq Zayed was with his son, Rassim, in a hassaka (small fishing boat) off the coast of Beit Lahia, northern Gaza. Izhaq was feeling…

  • Amnesty International urges Obama to halt further exports to Israel

    Ma’an News Agency 11 April 2009 The United States sent a massive new shipment of arms to Israel despite evidence that US weapons were misused against civilians in the Gaza attacks, Amnesty International revealed on 1 April. The human rights organization said about 14,000 tons worth of arms and munitions sent to Israel on the…

  • Farmers fired upon by Israeli forces in Al Faraheen, Gaza

    ISM Gaza | Farming Under Fire 8 April 2009 This morning, the farmers from Al-Faraheen in the Gaza Strip persisted with their efforts to harvest the year’s crop of lentils. Volunteers with the International Solidarity Movement, and a camera crew from Press TV accompanied the farmers as they set out to work in a field…

  • Palestinian prisoners families protest at Red Cross

    ISM Gaza | Palestinian Prisoners 8 April 2009 Every Monday for years the families of the Palestinian prisoners are protesting at the offices of the Red Cross in Gaza City. These families  have not been allowed to visit their relatives imprisoned in Israeli jails for almost 2 years. According to human rights organizations (including Israeli…