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FRIDAY October 15, 2010 Report on An Nabi Saleh by May Yesterday the village of An Nabi Saleh was transformed into a war zone, with Palestinian villagers and about fifteen International Peace activists trapped within the village behind a checkpoint ...
Read More »Gaza Olive harvest begins in the Beit Hanoun buffer zone while strawberry picker in Beit Lahiya is shot by Israeli Snipers
“This tree is blessed for us and our grandfathers and ancestors have taken care of this tree for generations. I grew up with an olive tree in our back yard and it represents the peaceful life we had always lived ...
Read More »Three protests in Gaza: Israeli sniper shoots Palestinian man, leaving him in critical condition
A 20-year-old Palestinian man, Sliman Abu Hanza, is in a critical condition in hospital after being shot in the abdomen with a ‘dum dum’ bullet at a demonstration in Al-Faraheen, Khan Younis, on Sunday. The injury was inflicted during one ...
Read More »IDF still using banned weapon against civilian protestors
Chaim Levinson | Ha’aretz 19 September 2010 The Israel Defense Forces continues using the Ruger 10/22 rifle to disperse protests even though it has been prohibited by the military advocate general, a hearing at a military court revealed last week. ...
Read More »Gaza deaths protest comes under heavy live fire from Israeli snipers
15 September 2010 | ISM Gaza Over 100 rounds of live ammunition were fired at peaceful protesters in a Tuesday demonstration in the Gaza strip. The protest at the Erez border area near Beit Hanoun yesterday included Palestinian activists from ...
Read More »Armed settler guards attack mosque in Wadi Hilweh, shots fired at Palestinian residents
26 August 2010 | Wadi Hilweh Information Center Violence has swept through Wadi Hilweh again as Israeli settler security guards attempted to storm the neighborhood mosque last night, in what marks the third time such an attack has been launched ...
Read More »UN report: IDF barring Gazans’ access to farms, fishing zones
19 August 2010 | Haaretz Humanitarian affairs office: Israel restricts entry to 17% of Gaza lands, 85% of beachfront zone, enforces restrictions with live fire. Over the last ten years, the Israel Defense Forces have increasingly restricted Palestinian access to ...
Read More »Live ammunition used on demonstrators in Gaza who move a section of the buffer-zone fence
18 August 2010 | ISM Gaza On Tuesday morning a demonstration in Gaza by Palestinian activists from Local Initiative Beit Hanoun, with four International Solidarity Movement volunteers and other international activists and journalists was met with live ammunition fired by ...
Read More »More than 200 demonstrate against the buffer-zone near Gaza’s Nahal Oz crossing
29 July 2010 | ISM Gaza Five International Solidarity Movement volunteers participated in a demonstration against the bufferzone near Nahal Oz border crossing, east of Gaza City on Wednesday (July 28th). The march had a big turn out of over 200 people and was organised by the Popular Campaign for the Security in the Buffer Zone, an umbrella group which includes organisations representing farmers and local people living near the border.
Read More »Israeli violence continues in Gaza ‘buffer zone’: wheat harvest prevented; three injured by shelling
International Solidarity Movement 20 June 2010 Five female farm-workers returned to the Gaza ‘buffer zone’ early Saturday morning, with the intention of continuing the wheat harvest near Khoza’a village, Khan Yunis. The harvesters were forced to abandon their work after ...
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