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 ...
Read More »Freedom Flotilla: We Will Not Be Intimidated
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 ...
Read More »Updated – Woman and daughter killed in ‘Abasan with propelling projectile missile
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 ...
Read More »Children and youth under fire in Gaza: two killed and more than ten injured
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 ...
Read More »We left Gaza city early …
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 ...
Read More »Gaza under attack: death and destruction in Rafah
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 ...
Read More »A new Israeli massacre in Gaza
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 ...
Read More »Five Palestinians killed, 40 injured by Israeli missiles in Gaza
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 ...
Read More »Samouni family responds to Goldstone backtrack on Israeli war crimes
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 ...
Read More »Gaza: Israeli shelling leaves Palestinian worker dead
05 April 2011 | Palestine News Network One man was killed when tanks bombarded a group of Palestinian workers as they collected construction materials near the northern Gaza Strip’s border with Israel. Palestinian medics announced that Mohamed Shalha, 21, was ...
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