Tag: Green Line

  • Palestinian kids with kites reclaiming land and rights

    ISM Gaza | Farming Under Fire 25 June 2009 ISM Gaza Strip activists participated in a children event/protest organized by the Beit Hanoun Local Initiative, close to the so called “buffer zone” that Israeli occupation forces are trying to impose all along the Green Line. Among the ruble of recently demolished homes, with other children…

  • Rotting in the ‘buffer zone’

    ISM Gaza | Farming Under Fire 18 June 2009 Ahmed Abu Hashish, a Bedouin teenager of 18 years from a rural community in the northern Gaza Strip had been missing for 54 days. A shepherd then noticed a murder of crows on a patch of land from which there was also a foul stench emanating,…

  • Bedouin family to search for the body of their missing son

    14 June 2009 A Bedouin teenager – Ahmed Salama Eid Abu Hashish, 18 – from the border area east of Beit Hanoun has been missing since 21st April, 2009. His family believe that he may have been killed in the “buffer zone” – an area of Gaza next to the border that Israeli soldiers attempt…

  • UN: Israel exclusion zone eats up 30% of Gaza’s arable land

    Ma’an News Agency Israel’s military “buffer zone” along the eastern and northern edge of the Gaza Strip eats up 30% of the territory’s arable land, the United Nations said this week. Fieldworkers with the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) told the Christian Science Monitor that they have been unable to verify conditions in…

  • Harvest challenges

    Eva Bartlett | In Gaza 1 June 2009 Just after 7 am on May 30th, Palestinian farmers in Khoza’a, east of Khan Younis, returned to the land they’d been menaced off of 5 days earlier. “The same day the Israelis dropped papers saying they would shoot at us for being on our land they did…