Tag Archives: Buffer Zone

6  September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Strip Today, like every Tuesday in Beit Hanoun, we marched into the buffer zone to protest it and the illegal Israeli occupation.  In many ways it was the same as every Tuesday.  ...

21 August 2011 | Islam Online, Hama Waqum 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 ...

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.” ...

2 August 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza The buffer zone is a place of death.  300 meters of destroyed land, land that used to be alive, that used to be filled with orchards, houses, and fields, now, all dead.  To enter ...

2 August 2011 | Ma’an News Agency GAZA CITY — Popular resistance activists held noon prayers on Tuesday in the “buffer zone” in northern Gaza. International solidarity activists joined dozens of Palestinians to pray on lands recently bulldozed by Israel near ...

19 July 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza The Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, happened sixty three years ago.  The theft of Palestinian land continues even today.  Every Tuesday, for the last three years, the people of Beit Hanoun ...

12 July 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Three years of protests have come and gone in Beit Hanoun. Every week, for three years, the people of Beit Hanoun have come out to protest against the occupation, against the wall that ...

6 July 2011 | International Solidarity Movement At Vittorio’s funeral in Gaza the crowds chanted “Viktor is with the fisherman, Viktor is with the farmers”, Vittorio is still with the people of Gaza. He lives on in their hearts. He ...

21 June 2011 | International Solidarity Movement At 11 A.M. this morning we gathered for the weekly demonstration against the occupation in Beit Hanoun.  This demonstration was different from the other demonstrations though.  Today, a troupe of young girls were joining us.  The ...

10 June 2011 | CounterPunch, Johnny Barber We marched to the buffer zone with about 20 others including members of the Beit Hanoun Local Initiative who have been organizing non-violent demonstrations for the past three years, as well as several members ...