Tag Archives: Gaza

by Radhika S. 27 October 2011 | Notes from Behind the Blockade Today completes another week of olive picking in Gaza.  Another week of pausing, breaths held, as Israeli tanks the color of sand moved nearby along the buffer zone, ...

25 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza On Monday 24 October, Gaza’s Ministry of Detainees welcomed 163 prisoners from the West Bank who were freed in the exchange between the government of Israel and Hamas. The Ministry promised to ...

24 October 2011 | Notes from Behind the Blockade I saw an Israeli naval warship for the first time yesterday, a concrete monster the color of ash, guzzling up the Mediterranean and spurting it out in its wake. I rose ...

24 October 2011 | Al Jazeera English, Raji Sourani and Eyad Sarraj While 1,000 Palestinian prisoners will be released, 1.8 million people living in Gaza are still not free. The prisoner exchange agreement concluded between Israel and Hamas has brought relief ...

23 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Olive farmers and volunteers were picking olives on 23 October 2011 when they were circled by two Apache helicopters and were faced by four tanks at certain points in the day. This ...

22 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Fifty Palestinian youth marched from Gaza’s International Committee of the Red Cross compound to the Commodore Gaza and Al-Quds International Hotels, celebrating the release of 477 political prisoners Tuesday and welcoming those ...

22 October 2011 | Mondoweiss, Leila Al-Najar and Ishraq Othman The Beach camp “Al-shate” is located to the west of Gaza City. Small houses are crowded together with an unbearable smell springing from the wastewater running through the alleys. As volunteers ...

21 October 2011 | Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel, Gaza We Palestinian students of the Gaza Strip wish to send a message to all European student groups in solidarity with the Palestinians to do all they ...

by Hussein Amoody and Radhika S. 20 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza The military trial of the four men charged with the death of Italian International Solidarity Movement Activist Vittorio Arrigoni continued in Gaza City today. The small courtroom was ...

by Radhika S. 18 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Thousands of Palestinians gathered in Gaza City’s Qatiba Square yesterday morning, swelling to over 200,000 as news arrived that the prisoners had safely crossed the border from Egypt into ...