Tag Archives: Gaza

April 15: Updated with news reports below. The International Solidarity Movement is shocked and deeply saddened by the killing of our friend and colleague Vittorio Arrigoni. Vik was an inspiring activist and generous soul. Please keep his family and friends ...

International Solidarity Movement & Free Gaza Movement FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (April 14, 2011) – Today, our friend and colleague, Vittorio Arrigoni, a journalist and human rights defender working in the Gaza Strip, was kidnapped in Gaza. Vittorio has been active ...

13 April, 2011 | Freedom Flotilla Athens – The Freedom Flotilla 2 Steering Committee met in Athens 9 and 10 April to continue preparations for the upcoming flotilla. Since the last meeting in Amsterdam, Israel has launched an international campaign ...

11 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza On April 8th, around noon, the southern villages around Khan Younis were shaken up when four artillery shells were fired from a tank. One of them hit a house located in ‘Abasan ...

13 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza WARNING: Contains graphic images some may find disturbing. On Friday April 8th at approximately 5.30 pm a drone dropped a bomb on a group of children and young people who were playing ...

13 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza We left Gaza city early; we were going to Faraheen, a small village near the buffer zone to help farmers plant peppers. Israel has declared a 300 meter “buffer zone” along the ...

10 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza On the afternoon of Thursday April 7th, Israeli forces escalated their attacks on the Gaza Strip. The murderous offensive has killed 18 people so far, the majority of them being civilians. Among ...

09 April 2011 | One Democratic State Group, Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel, University Teachers’ Association in Palestine, Association of Al-Quds Bank for Culture and Information Besieged Gaza, Occupied Palestine. The latest round of Israeli massacres ...

08 April 2011 | Palestine News Network Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Thursday that five Palestinians were killed and at least 40 residents, including children, were wounded in several Israeli air strikes and a ground attacks ...

6 April 2011 | Ken O’Keefe During Operation Cast Lead Israel committed massive war crimes for all the world to see. Among these crimes the use of White Phosphorus in densely populated areas, use of Depleted Uranium, bombing civilian targets ...