Tag: Gaza

Military investigator testifies that head of IDF Southern Command instructed bulldozer operator not to cooperate with investigation

Rachel Corrie Foundation 29 March 2010 Monday, March 22 and Wednesday March 24, 2010 the Haifa District Court saw the fifth and sixth days of testimony in the civil lawsuit filed by Rachel Corrie’s family against the State of Israel for her unlawful killing in Rafah, Gaza. Rachel Corrie, an American human rights defender from…

March 30, 2010
Teenager shot by Israeli forces in northern Gaza

ISM Gaza 26 March 2010 Said Abdel Aziz Hamdan, 15, went for his first time to Gaza’s northern border area to try gathering scrap metal for re-sale. Although an area lined with Israeli military towers and notorious for Israeli soldier shooting, shelling and abductions of Palestinian workers and farmers, Hamdan did not feel he would…

March 26, 2010
Fisherman shot in the head and critically ill in Shifa’a Hospital in Gaza

ISM Gaza 25 March 2010 Fisherman Hazem Gora’ani, age 26, from the town of Deir Al Balah, south of Gaza City, was brought to Shifa Hospital with serious head wounds around 9 o’clock this morning. An urgent operation lasting one and a half hours was performed to stop the bleeding inside his brain. Dr Samir…

March 25, 2010