Tag: Gaza

  • ISM Gaza: Israeli navy shoots cables on Palestinian fishing boat

    On 15th November, 2008, seven human rights observers accompanied four Palestinian trawling vessels from the port of Gaza City as they fished in Palestinian territorial waters. At approximately 09:00 an Israeli naval gunboat marked ‘833’ approached one of the fishing vessels and proceeded to circle it. A soldier, possibly the commander of the gunboat, began…

  • Ynet: UN closes Gaza aid centers, citing lack of food

    World body says doesn’t have enough food to distribute because of Israeli siege on Strip Associated Press To view original article, published by Ynet on the 15th November, click here UN aid workers are turning away thousands of Gaza residents meant to pick up food from UN distribution centers because the international organization has run…

  • Haaretz: The ebb, the tide, the sighs’

    By Gideon Levy The young fisherman is now in hospital, feeble and pale, one leg in a cast held in place by iron screws. He is awash with pain. His mother does not leave his bedside. A blind Palestinian physician takes him for a brief physiotherapy session in the corridor. Mohammed Masalah leans on a…

  • MSP asks Israeli embassy to investigate Israeli Defence Force “misinformation”

    PRESS RELEASE 12 November 2008 For Immediate Use Dr Bill Wilson, SNP MSP for the West of Scotland, today announced that he had suggested the Israeli Embassy in London launch an inquiry into the “misinformation” he implied it was being fed by the Israeli Defence Force (IDF). The suggestion was made in a letter he…

  • ISM Gaza: Resistance is plowing the fields of Fukharee

    Fukharee, Gaza Strip, Palestine, 11th November 2008 By Donna Wallach On Tuesday 11th November 2008, four international Human Rights Observers accompanied some farmers to plow their fields for wheat, rye and lentils. The day started out with a long walk to the field. As in previous accompaniments to the “Buffer Zone”, the fields waiting to…