Tag: Live Ammunition
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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 the Israeli army. Soldiers opened fire on protestors in the buffer zone in Beit Hanoun,…
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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…
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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 just thirty minutes as snipers attacked the unarmed workers with a barrage of live ammunition.…
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Stop the bullets! A call to end the use of live ammunition against unarmed civilians in the Gaza ‘buffer zone’
International Solidarity Movement 19 June 2010 The catastrophic Israeli attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, which left 9 dead, has rightly horrified the international community. However, lethal force by the Israeli military is nothing new to Palestinians. In the Gaza ‘buffer zone’, live ammunition is routinely used against unarmed demonstrators and farmers. * The ‘buffer…
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Wheat harvest met with live ammunition in Gaza “buffer zone”
International Solidarity Movement 13 June 2010 Israeli forces attacked women farmworkers and international human rights activists with heavy gunfire during three days’ wheat harvest in the southern Gaza Strip. The Israel-imposed “buffer zone” illegally claims over 30% of Gaza’s arable farmland. In Khoza’a village, east of Khan Yunis, substantial wheat remains unharvested despite severe poverty…