Tag: Gaza

  • Masafer Yatta Families Displaced Following Home Demolitions

    Masafer Yatta Families Displaced Following Home Demolitions

    7 December 2023 | International Solidarity Movement | Masafer Yatta, Occupied West Bank In just over one week, several Palestinian family homes were relegated to fields of rubble after occupation army bulldozers invaded several villages including al Deirat, Umm Lasafa and Umm Qissa. The demolitions left Palestinian children and their families homeless as the targeted…

  • A Song from Gaza: Alone (لوحدك)

    A Song from Gaza: Alone (لوحدك)

    Alone/ لوحدك is a poem by Egyptian poet Ehab Lotayef performed by Haidar Eid on the music by Reziq JuJu. Haidar Eid is a professor at al-Quds University in Gaza City now trying to stay alive in the midst of the genocidal attack by apartheid Israel on Gaza. Haidar wants to express the feelings of…

  • 42 Days Transgressed: Legal Restraints on Life Support from Jenin to Gaza City

    42 Days Transgressed: Legal Restraints on Life Support from Jenin to Gaza City

    17 November 2023 | International Solidarity Movement | Jenin, Gaza Through the war riddled lens of Palestinian journalists’ reports and social media posts, we have watched the crossing of an invisible line.   As an American nurse doing human rights monitoring work in the occupied West Bank, I woke today to see the lens focused on…

  • Eradicating people from Gaza

    Eradicating people from Gaza

      The onslaught on Gaza is non-stopping and gaining pace. In the last few days, the attacks from the air, ground and sea have claimed hundreds of lives. The majority of dead and wounded are women and children. As of November 4, the number of those killed was 9,485 of which 3,900 were children and…

  • Family members of Gazan activist Ahmed Abu Artema killed in Israeli airstrike

    Family members of Gazan activist Ahmed Abu Artema killed in Israeli airstrike

    ISM PRESS RELEASE  October 27  Our friend, the poet Ahmed Abu Artema, whose social media post inspired the Great March of Return in 2018, has been targeted in an Israeli airstrike that shelled his home in Tel al Sultan, Rafah, Gaza, killing five members of his family. Ahmed was also seriously injured in the attack…