ISM Gaza 3 September 2009 In November 2008 Abu Adham’s fishing boat was seized by the Israeli Navy and all the fishermen were abducted and transferred to Israel. The fishermen and boat were subsequently released without charge. In June 2009 ...
Read More »Israelis destroy boats, and lives
Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service 3 September 2009 Until Monday, Omar and Khaled Al-Habil were the owners of a 20m fishing trawler staffed by five or six fishermen at a time, but employing around 18 in cycles. But that ...
Read More »In a rotten state
Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service 29 August 2009 Abu Abed can’t make a profit, and although 54 years old, he still has not married. “I can’t pay my rent, I can’t afford a wedding.” His shop, roughly 3m by ...
Read More »At least 4 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) 25 August 2009 The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns attacks perpetrated by Israeli forces in the evening of 24 August, and the morning of 25 August 2009. Three Palestinians were killed ...
Read More »Gaza fishermen demonstrate at UN in protest of Israeli attacks on their livelihoods
PNN | Fishing Under Fire 14 August 2009 Fishermen in the Gaza Strip are the frequent targets of Israeli forces. Israeli naval ships sometimes open fire, or board boats, arrest the fishermen, even confiscate nets and the boats themselves. Today ...
Read More »Morality’s chief of staff
Gideon Levy | Ha’aretz 16 August 2009 Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi is a moral and ethical paragon who stands atop an organization that is no less moral or ethical. Last week, he broke his silence and proved his acute sensitivity ...
Read More »Rights group: Israel killed unarmed Palestinians
Jen Thomas | Associated Press 13 August 2009 A new report by Human Rights Watch charged Thursday that Israeli soldiers killed eleven unarmed Palestinian civilians who were carrying white flags in shooting incidents during Israel’s offensive in Gaza earlier this ...
Read More »Piecing the injured back together
Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service 10 August 2009 Following consultation with him and with the specialist in prosthetics and orthotics rehabilitation from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), many will begin the long road to treatment. “It ...
Read More »University of JHB Prof lodges charges against War Criminal David Benjamin
Today, University of Johannesburg academic, Professor Farid Esack and Palestine Solidarity Committee members formally laid charges at the Johannesburg Central Police station against war criminal Lieutenant-Colonel David Benjamin. This follows an application lodged on Monday by the Palestine Solidarity Alliance ...
Read More »And still they run these taxis
Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service 3 August 2009 “It cost over 1,000 dollars. Before the siege, it would have been 500 to 1000 shekels (roughly 125 to 250 dollars), at most 250 dollars. Anyway, I had to buy it; ...
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