Tag: Gaza
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Gaza: Life beneath the drones
25th January 2014 | Corporate Watch, Tom Anderson and Therezia Cooper | Gaza, Occupied Palestine In the Gaza Strip there is no escape from Israel’s drones. Nicknameed ‘zenana’by Palestinians because of their noisy buzzing, the drones (remote control aircraft) are omnipresent. Sometimes they are there to carry out an extra judicial killing and sometimes they are there…
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Israeli warplanes kill member of Palestinian armed group and his cousin in Beit Hanoun, Gaza
23rd January 2014 | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights | Gaza, Occupied Palestine In an extra-judicial execution attempt, on Wednesday 22 January 2014, an Israeli drone fired a missile at a civilian car in Beith Hanoun, Northern Gaza. As a result, both passengers, a member of a Palestinian armed group and his cousin, were killed…
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Photos and video: Israeli forces’ gunfire blocks Palestinian farmland in Gaza
22nd January 2014 | Resistenza Quotidiana, Sil | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Since the Zionist occupation forces’ bulldozers had destroyed part of Khaled Qudaih’s field in Khuza’a, east of Khan Younis, he and his family went out to sow it again. The military responded with about half an hour of gunfire, threatening to strike Qudaih directly if he had not…
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Photos: Rally to save sick prisoner Ibrahim Bitar follows Gaza sit-in for detainees
20th January 2014 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Team | Gaza, Occupied Palestine Dozens of Palestinians joined a rally organized by the Popular Campaign to Save the Life of the Captive Patient Ibrahim Bitar outside the International Committee of the Red Cross’ Gaza office this morning. The gathering followed a weekly sit-in by families and supporters…
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VIDEO: Protesters in Gaza’s “buffer zone” under fire from Israeli forces
17th January 2014 | Institute for Middle East Understanding | Gaza, Occupied Palestine They are young, and they are fearless. In Gaza, a growing nonviolent movement, led predominantly by youth, is challenging Israel’s ongoing occupation of Palestinian lands in the so-called “buffer zone” — a unilaterally demarcated and militarily patrolled area that, according to Harvard researcher Sara…
