Tag: Gaza

  • ISM Rafah: Israeli navy fire shells at Gazan fishermen

    On Sunday October 5th, two international human rights observers accompanied a Gazan fishing boat offshore of Jabalya. Soon an Israeli gunboat approached. The internationals, after a request from the Palestinian captain, made clear that there was an international presence on board. For a while the Israeli gunboat seemed to leave but then, suddenly, from a…

  • Israeli Naval Violence against Palestinian fishing boats continues

    On Saturday 4 October two international human rights observers accompanied a Gazan fishing boat in its daily work, important not only for the fishermen’s families but also for the Palestinian economy in general, especially in the besieged Gaza Strip. When the fishing boat was at about 8 nautical miles from the coast it was intercepted…

  • ISM Rafah: Life on the Green Line

    This is the story of a family living in the Al Farahin neighbourhood of Abassan Alkabeera in southern Gaza. Translated, filmed and edited by Fida Qishta Language edit by ISM Rafah The family’s home is situated extremely close to the ‘Green Line’ with Israel and subsequently has suffered many cases of Israeli military aggression. There…