Israel exploits Egypt turmoil to increase attacks on Gaza farmers ~ by @jncatron

Israel continues to violate the terms of a 2012 ceasefire by attacking farmers in Gaza. (Eyad Al Baba / APA images)   18th September 2013 | The Electronic Intifada, Joe Catron | ISM Palestine |  Gaza City, Occupied Palestine Farming in the Gaza Strip’s “buffer zone” is hazardous under the best circumstances. Israeli troops routinely shoot live ammunition […]

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Israeli TV broadcasts operetta that hails Egyptian military coup

Middle East Monitor | Sept 2, 2013 Israeli mass media broadcast on Monday morning the operetta “Blessed are the Hands” to hail the Egyptian military forces that carried out the coup in Egypt last month.   Israel’s Channel 2 TV broadcast the operetta after Egyptian military bulldozers razed residential houses in the Egyptian Rafah in […]

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VIDEO | Gov’t: Buffer Zone not between neighboring countries

Al Ray Agencies | Sept 2, 2013 Gaza, Alray – Palestinian Government denounced the Egyptian step to create a buffer zone at  the border between Gaza and Egypt. Egypt’s military has bulldozed 13 homes along the Gaza Strip border and caved in tunnels beneath them as a prelude to the possible creation of a buffer […]

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#VIDEO | Welcome to the Buffer Zone – Harry Fear for GazaReport.com

Jul 4, 2012 Video by harryfear Harry Fear speaks with Gazans living next to Buffer Zone bordering Israel © http://GazaReport.com – Camera: Salah El Haw Recommended read: A “Leaflet” to the World about it’s own “forgotten” Extermination Camp called Gaza Featured Gaza Siege Harshness Continues. Israel’s committing slow-motion genocide ~ by Stephen Lendman – March […]

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Virtual Field Visit: Israel’s Enforcement of the Buffer Zone in the Gaza Strip – VIDEO

by Alhaqhr on Sep 27, 2011 This video combines Al-Haq’s visual documentation with satellite imagery to create virtual tours of the human rights violations commited in the occupied Palestinian territory. Each tour is designed to recreate the experience of making a field visit, providing everyone with the opportunity to see the on-the-ground reality of the […]

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Entering the deadly zone, demonstration in front of Erez

Gaza Under Attack – Timeline | Pictures Aug 2011 | Oct 2011 | Dec 2011| Jan 2012 7 February 2012 | Chroniques de Palestine | ISM A Palestinian plays football in the no go zone near Erez during the weekly demonstration against the occupation in Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, February 7, 2012. Every Tuesday […]

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Music Against the No Go Zone ~ in pictures by @RosaSchiano

Gaza Under Attack – Timeline | Pictures Aug 2011 | Oct 2011 | Dec 2011| Jan 2012 by Rosa Schiano | 3 February 2012 | il Blog di Oliva | ISM Every Tuesday we demonstrate at the Erez border crossing, in Beit Hanoun, in the north of the Gaza Strip. The demonstration started at about 11.00 am. […]

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Palestinians farming creatively to overcome the ‘buffer zone’

21 August 2011 | Islam Online, Hama Waqum  | International Solidarity Movement On Nakba Day in May, thousands of Palestinians edged towards Israel’s borders with Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Gaza, demanding their Right of Return, and an end to the Israeli occupation. Many of these protestors would return to demonstrate on the Naksa Day […]

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As protesters hold Iftar in the “buffer zone,” Israeli bulldozers sever Gaza’s links with the world

Related to the overview | Latest updates about #GazaBlackOut 16 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza On Tuesday, August 9, members of the International Solidarity Movement – Gaza Strip joined the Beit Hanoun Local Initiative for its weekly protest by the Erez Crossing against the Israeli-imposed “buffer zone.” During Ramadan, these protests take the […]

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Palestinians mark third year of Gaza “buffer zone” protests

  Eva Bartlett |The Electronic Intifada|  Beit Hanoun | 12 July 2011 Marching towards Gaza-Israel boundary ( Eva Bartlett / Inter Press Service ) BEIT HANOUN, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) – It is another sweltering morning in Gaza. Despite the heat a tenacious group of women, men and children gathers near a bombed agricultural college in […]

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We left Gaza city early …

13 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza We left Gaza city early; we were going to Faraheen, a small village near the buffer zone to help farmers plant peppers. Israel has declared a 300 meter “buffer zone” along the entire border with Gaza. What does the buffer zone mean? Simply, that Israel will shoot […]

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