Como es la realidad con la mayoría de los elementos de la vida palestina bajo la ocupación israelí, el mayor desafío en la industria pesquera de Gaza no es el si, o las fluctuaciones en el mercado, es simplemente vivir para pescar otro día.
"A pesar de la tregua de Suecia, las fuerzas de la Coalición han seguido impidiendo que los pescadores yemeníes pesquen y, si los pescadores se atreven a navegar, serán asesinados o detenidos". – Mohammed al-Hassani, jefe del Foro de Pescadores de Tahamah
HODEIDA, YEMEN-- The Saudi-led Coalition kidnapped more than 170 Yemeni fishermen and seized their boats while they were fishing near the port city of Hodeida this past week. To demonstrate clearly that they posed no threat, the fishermen hung large white flags on the back of their boats and waved fish in the air as Coalition military vessels
Dado que ni los agricultores ni los pescadores están a salvo de los ataques de la coalición saudí, la hambruna se ha convertido en una crisis masiva en Yemen, exacerbada aún más por el bloqueo del país por parte de la coalición que impide en gran medida que se importen alimentos a la nación en problemas.
HODEIDA, YEMEN -- “They told us that if we didn't confess they would kill us and throw our bodies into the sea for the fish and birds to eat,” recalls Omar Ghalib, a Yemeni fisherman who was kidnapped by Saudi fighters and then tortured while out in his boat late one evening in Yemen’s port city of Hodeida. We arrived to our usual fishing
Over the weekend the Saudi-led coalition bombed a water treatment facility, targeted and killed a number of fishermen, used banned cluster bombs and targeted a Yemeni radio station.
HODEIDA, YEMEN -- The U.S.-backed, Saudi-led coalition conducted numerous airstrikes across Yemen this past weekend, especially against the strategic port city of Hodeida. Heavy civilian casualties have been reported, as has the use of cluster bombs against civilian targets. Hodeida’s water and sewage treatment infrastructure was also targeted in
In 2016 alone, there were at least 126 incidents in which small wooden fishing vessels were fired on by the Israeli Navy.
On Al Nakba Day of all days, the Israeli Navy killed another Palestinian fisherman, Muhammad Majid Bakr. The second in this year alone. The Israeli Navy claims Bakr’s fishing trawler responded neither to their calls, nor warning shots, after deviating “
