Tag: Khan Younis

  • Picking pebbles to live somehow

    Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service 2 March 2010 They come by the hundreds every day to sand dunes and rubble sites to sift for pebbles, stones and sand that can be used in making concrete blocks. They lean into trash bins across the Strip, and wade through piles of rubbish scavenging for plastics, metals,…

  • Gaza one year ago: ‘I prayed to my god to be the first in my family to die’

    Khulood Ghanem | Mondoweiss 27 December 2009 Khulood Ghanem, 27, kept a Gaza diary a year ago. What follows is Ghanem’s entry from the first day of the war, 27 December 2008. I finished my work in Khan Younis at 10 o’clock, and rode a car to Gaza City. I reached there at 11. I…

  • International Human Rights Workers to accompany Palestinian farmers near buffer zone in Gaza Strip

    For Immediate Release: 8am, Thursday 7 May 2009: Six International Human Rights Workers will be accompanying 12 Palestinian farmers Laytamaat area near Khoza’a, east of Khan Younis, in the south of the Gaza strip, as they harvest crops several hundred metres from the Green Line. Farmers and international accompaniers were last fired upon in Beit…

  • Gazan farmers continue their work despite army shooting

    On the morning of the 1st of April, ISM Gaza Strip activists returned to accompany Palestinian farmers in the area of Khouza’a, east of Khan Younis.  This is the same area where farmers working their fields were almost shot on the 24th of February.  The fields are far away from the Israeli watchtowers and about…

  • Shooting at farmers, what gives Israel the right?

    Eva Bartlett | In Gaza 3 February 2009 I was fairly certain that one of us would be shot today. This morning, farmers from Abassan Jadiida (New Abassan), to the east of Khan Younis , the southern region, returned to land they’d been forced off of during and following the war on Gaza. The continual…