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ISM Gaza: ‘Please let farmers in your communities know what is happening to the Palestinian farmers here in the Gaza Strip’

Saturday, October 18th, 2008 | Posted in Reports, Gaza Region

On Tuesday morning, 14th October at around 09:30, two of the Human Rights Observers (HROs), who had spent the night at a house close to the
Green Line in the ‘buffer zone’ in Al-Faraheen, put on florescent yellow vests with reflective tape. They walked out in the demolished fields of olive, citrus, and guava trees surrounding the...

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ISM Gaza: ‘Sailors the world over face danger every time they put to sea. However, their risk stems from the elements, not from state-sponsored terrorism’

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 | Posted in Journals, Gaza Region

Personal account of accompanying Gazan fishermen by ISM activist

On Sunday 12th October, I joined a group of international human rights observers dispersed amongst a small fleet of seven Palestinian trawlers from the port of Gaza City. We left port at 8.00am and headed out to sea in a westerly direction. Soon after leaving port we observed...

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ISM Gaza: Israeli navy again open fire on Gazan fishermen and internationals

Monday, October 13th, 2008 | Posted in Reports, Gaza Region

This Sunday the 12th October 2008, the Israeli navy continued its violent harassment of Palestinian fishermen. A fleet of seven fishing boats from the port in Gaza City initially spotted two Israeli gunboats operating in Palestinian territorial waters at 08:45. The gunboats began circling some of the fishing boats at the rear of the fleet, and demanding...

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PCHR Narratives Under Siege: Gaza factories continue enforced downsize as imports remain banned

Friday, October 10th, 2008 | Posted in Press clippings, Gaza Region, Photos

In order to highlight the impact of the siege and closure of the Gaza Strip on the civilian population, PCHR is publishing a series of “Narratives Under Siege.” These short articles are based on personal testimonies and experiences of life in the Gaza Strip, and we hope they will serve to highlight the restrictions, and the violations,...

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ISM Gaza: Olive harvest on the Green Line

Thursday, October 9th, 2008 | Posted in Reports, Gaza Region, Video, Olive Harvest 2008

9th October 2008, Beit Hanoun, Northern Gaza Strip

On the 9th October, members of ISM Gaza supported an action organised by a Palestinian youth group called The Local Initiative.


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ISM Gaza join 2008 Olive Harvest Campaign

Thursday, October 9th, 2008 | Posted in Gaza Region, Photos, Olive Harvest 2008

Many farmers in the Gaza Strip are being denied access to their land by Israeli occupation forces. An arbitrary ‘buffer zone’ is being imposed hundreds of metres deep long the Green Line. Agricultural land has been destroyed in these areas and massive numbers of olive and fruit trees have been bulldozed, devastating the livelihoods of...

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ISM Gaza: Israel continues to breach ceasefire agreement with attacks on fishermen

Thursday, October 9th, 2008 | Posted in Reports, Gaza Region

On Wednesday 8th October, international Human Rights Workers (HRWs) accompanied Palestinian fishing boats off the coast of Gaza.

In the morning, while sailing about 7 nautical miles from shore, Israeli gunboats approached the Palestinian fishing boats. After request from Palestinian captain, one of the internationals talked on VHF radio....

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ISM Rafah: Israeli navy fire shells at Gazan fishermen

Monday, October 6th, 2008 | Posted in Reports, Gaza Region, Video

On Sunday October 5th, two international human rights observers accompanied a Gazan fishing boat offshore of Jabalya.


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Israeli Naval Violence against Palestinian fishing boats continues

Sunday, October 5th, 2008 | Posted in Reports, Gaza Region

On Saturday 4 October two international human rights observers accompanied a Gazan fishing boat in its daily work, important not only for the fishermen’s families but also for the Palestinian economy in general, especially in the besieged Gaza Strip.

When the fishing boat was at about 8 nautical miles from the coast it was intercepted...

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ISM Rafah: Life on the Green Line

Monday, September 29th, 2008 | Posted in Gaza Region, Video

This is the story of a family living in the Al Farahin neighbourhood of Abassan Alkabeera in southern Gaza.


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