Tag: Gaza

  • Palestinian prisoners’ families protest at Red Cross

    ISM Gaza | Palestinian Prisoners 27 April 2009 The Palestinian Prisoners Day (14th of April) has gone but the families of the Palestinian prisoners continue their struggle. As every Monday for several years now, today again they peacefully occupied the yard of the Red Cross building in Gaza City. Mothers, wives, sisters, children, showing the…

  • Heed voices calling for justice for Palestinians

    Huwaida Arraf | The Seattle Times 24 April 2009 We Palestinians are often asked where the Palestinian Gandhi is and urged to adopt nonviolent methods in our struggle for freedom from Israeli military rule. On April 18, an Israeli soldier killed my good friend Bassem Abu Rahme at a nonviolent demonstration against Israeli confiscation of…

  • Israeli forces fire at Gazan farmers

    ISM Gaza | Farming Under Fire 17 April 2009 On Friday 17th of April a group of Palestinian activists of the Beit Hanoun Local Initiative, international activists of ISM Gaza Strip and FGM and journalists went to accompany Palestinian farmers to harvest their crops in Beit Hanoun, close to the Green Line. As soon as…