Tag: Gaza
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Gaza City ceremony honours journalists killed reporting in Gaza
28 July 2010 | ISM Gaza Journalists killed by Israel while reporting in Gaza were remembered at an award ceremony in Gaza City yesterday; family members and co-workers received a plaque in their honour. Abu Walid Mahmoud Al-Zaq of the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front (PPSF), the group organising the event – on their 43rd anniversary…
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Two dead and four children injured in Israeli nail bomb attack in Beit Hanoun, Gaza
By ISM Gaza | 22 July 2010 “She came in through and it wasn’t clear she was injured. Suddenly a lot of blood came from her nose and she vomited. All of the family saw this – her little brothers were very scared. She had just been playing in the front of the house.” This…
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IDF soldier who shot British peace activist to be released from jail
Anshel Pfeffer | Ha’aretz 19 July 2010 A former IDF soldier who was found guilty of manslaughter in the 2003 shooting death of British peace activist Thomas Hurndall in the Gaza Strip will be released early from prison next month. Taysir-al-Heib was sentenced in 2005 to eight years in prison for manslaughter as well as…