HR Workers To Accompany Palestinian Farmers
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HR Workers To Accompany Palestinian Farmers
Wednesday, 1 April 2009, 3:59 pm
Press Release: International Solidarity Movement
Human Rights Workers To Accompany Palestinian Farmers
8am, Tuesday 31st of March 2009: Eight international Human Rights Workers (HRWs) in the Gaza Strip will be accompanying 25 Palestinian women farmers from the village of Al Amannat to their lands.
Al Amannat village is located east of Khan Younis, south of the village of Khoza’a. The farmers’ fields are located around 500 meters from the Green Line, the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian farmers have been repeatedly fired upon by Israeli forces for working their lands within 1km of the Green Line.
On the 18th February 2009 international HRWs witnessed the shooting of 20 year old Mohammad Ibrahim by Israeli forces. Mohammad was shot in the leg as he was loading parsley onto a truck approximately 550m from the Green Line.
The farmers and internationals had been working for two hours in full view of the Israeli forces and were leaving the area at the time of shooting.
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