Tag: Gaza
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ISM Gaza Strip: Drone rockets strike Gazan people
20th December 2008 After welcoming the 5th Free Gaza boat this morning, ISM activists based in the Gaza Strip went to see the site of an Israeli rocket attack that had occurred just as the boat arrived, at about 8.30am. Three rockets were fired from a drone plane, killing an Al Aqsa Brigades fighter and…
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The Observer: Israeli blockade ‘forces Palestinians to search rubbish dumps for food’
UN fears irreversible damage is being done in Gaza as new statistics reveal the level of deprivation By Peter Beaumont To view original article, published by The Observer on the 21st December, click here Impoverished Palestinians on the Gaza Strip are being forced to scavenge for food on rubbish dumps to survive as Israel’s economic…
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Free Gaza Movement: Dignity pulls into Gaza Port despite Israeli threats
Vittorio Arrigoni, one of the ISM volunteers kidnapped from Palestinian waters by the Israeli navy has returned to Gaza on-board the ‘Dignity’. Vittorio was deported by Israel, after engaging in a hunger-strike for the return of the Palestinian fishing trawlers stolen by the Israeli navy, despite never having been inside Israeli territory. He now returns…