Gaza buffer zone

An international day of action against Israeli food exporters takes place this weekend.

Camel’s milk is used as a traditional remedy.

Loudspeakers are used by the Israeli navy to intimidate Palestinians trying to make a living.

Stephen Harper’s complicity in Israel’s crimes is denounced by his compatriots.

Wheat farmers in Gaza face a lack of irrigation and fuel due to the Israeli blockade while fertile farmland is declared off-limits by the Israeli army.

For the first time in 43 years, members of the UN Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices in Occupied Territories gained entry into Gaza in July, through Egypt which ousted its Israeli-friendly president Hosni Mubarak following massive public protests earlier this year.

While Lebanon’s Naksa Day demonstrations were prevented by Lebanese security, demonstrations went on throughout the occupied West Bank as well as by Palestine supporters worldwide.