Israel shells Gazan farmers http://palsolidarity.org/2010/05/12537/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+palsolidarity+%28International+Solidarity+Movement%29

Yesterday, Thursday the 27 May ’10, three people were wounded in the Zeytoun neighborhood of Gaza City which was bombed by the Israeli Apache helicopters and six farmers from the same area were wounded by the tank artillery fire while farming near the border. This morning (Friday 28th), two ISM activists visited two of the wounded farmers in the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Baraka Mihammad AL Mugrabi, age 53 and Musa Ashad Badawi, age 28 are neighbors, and went to farm yesterday at 6 a.m ...

Baraka has 5 dunums of land and Musa 12, and they grow olives, apricots and other fruits as well as vegetables and some wheat ... Both of them are farmers with no other source of income and large numbers of people depend on their farming income.

In Musa’s case, this includes over 20 members of his family including his parents and younger siblings. Baraka supports a large family of 10 children, his parents and several older relatives. Soon after they started farming, earth-to earth missiles fired at them from 10 Israeli tanks ... Artillery shrapnel hit Baraka’s lower arm, shattering the bone in several places and caused nerve damage. He also suffered a spinal injury in a fall following the wounding.