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The Palmer/Uribe Report: another attempt by Israel to whitewash murder?

Posted on: September 1, 2011

1 September 2011 | Free Gaza Movement

On May 31, 2010, Israeli commandos brutally attacked Freedom Flotilla 1, killing eight Turkish and one American passenger on board the Mavi Marmara, most having been killed at close range, execution style. They injured more than 50 other passengers, both on the Mavi Marmara and on the other four boats sailing to the embattled territory of Gaza to bring the attention of the world to Israel’s illegal blockade of 1.6 million Palestinians. Not only were our passengers murdered and maimed, but the Israeli government has refused to return over $1 million in money … Continue reading


Updated on September 1, 2011
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Humanity Has No Nationality – هويدا عراف

Posted on: July 11, 2011
Huwaida Arraf @ TedxRamallah: Humanity Has No Nationality

16 April 2011 | Huwaida Arraf at TEDxRamallah

Huwaida Arraf is a Palestinian lawyer with American and Israeli citizenship. In 2001 Huwaida co-founded the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), which has twice been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Huwaida is co-author of “Peace Under Fire: Israel, Palestine, and the International Solidarity Movement.” She taught in a human rights law clinic at Al-Quds University, the first legal clinic in the Arab World. She was one of the initiators and organizers of a delegation of American lawyers to Gaza in February 2009, and co-edited the report on their findings. Huwaida is currently … Continue reading


Updated on July 12, 2011
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Freedom Flotilla 2: Message In a Bottle

Posted on: June 17, 2011

16 June 2011 | Adam Shapiro

Freedom Flotilla 2 is setting sail to Gaza soon. Despite claims that the flotilla is not needed because “Rafah is now open”, the people of Gaza are still trapped and suffocated by Israel’s cruel blockade. Please watch this short video and share it far & wide to spread awareness about our action and why Gaza and all of Palestine needs us!

A video to inspire the international community and continue the support for the Freedom Flotilla II – Stay Human.


Updated on June 22, 2011
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Support the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza

Posted on: May 27, 2011
Support the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza

29 May 2011 | Free Gaza

Sign the petition and get updated news about the Freedom Flotilla II – Stay Human

We are writing to ask for your support for the Gaza Freedom Flotilla scheduled to set sail in the second half of June to the besieged Gaza strip. You can help prevent an assault on the nonviolent activists aboard the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza by signing on to our petition.

At least ten ships with dignitaries, doctors, professors, artists, journalists, and activists, as well as construction supplies and humanitarian … Continue reading


Updated on June 4, 2011
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Breaking the Gaza embargo and Israeli piracy

Posted on: May 11, 2011
Breaking the Gaza embargo and Israeli piracy

10 May 2011 | Huwaida Arraf, Noam Chomsky and Gabriel Schivone

A year ago this month, Israel shocked the world when it attacked a humanitarian convoy on its way to Gaza in international waters, killing 9 civilians, injuring dozens more, and kidnapping hundreds. Today — as Hamas and Fatah negotiate internal unity and Egypt moves to permanently open Gaza’s southern border, consequences of the Arab Spring — the international solidarity movement musters an even greater flotilla of ships to challenge Israel’s illegal actions against the Palestinians. As anticipated, … Continue reading


Updated on May 11, 2011
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Remembering Vik

Posted on: April 15, 2011

Jeff Halper | Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions

Less than two weeks after losing another friend and comrade, Juliano Mer-Khamis, I now have to mourn and remember my fellow Free Gaza shipmate Vittorio (Vik) Arrigoni, who was brutally murdered last night by religious extremists in Gaza (and who actually resembled Juliano, physically, in his buoyant personality and in his insistence on “being there” when the oppressed needed him).

Vik was truly a person greater than life. He was so filled with energy, a mixture of joy, camaraderie and impatience with the confines of boats and prisons like Gaza, … Continue reading


Updated on April 15, 2011
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Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank unite in mourning of slain activist Vittorio Arrigoni

Posted on: April 15, 2011
Vittorio Arrigoni

International Solidarity Movement Gaza

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Palestinians across the Gaza strip and the West Bank will join today in mourning slain activist Vittorio Arrigoni. People will gather both in the Al Manara square in Ramallah and at Al Jundi al Majhull, the unknown soldier park, in Gaza City. Mourners will be received by the ISM, local popular committees, and BDS and civil society activists.

Gaza
16.00, Al Jundi AL Majhoul – demonstration will move towards al Jundi al Majhoul, the unknown soldier park. A mourning tent will open at the fisherman’s port … Continue reading


Updated on April 15, 2011
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Palestinians call for release of Italian activist kidnapped in Gaza

Posted on: April 14, 2011
Vittorio Arrigoni

International Solidarity Movement & Free Gaza Movement

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

(April 14, 2011) – Today, our friend and colleague, Vittorio Arrigoni, a journalist and human rights defender working in the Gaza Strip, was kidnapped in Gaza.

Vittorio has been active in the Palestine cause for almost 10 years. For the past two and a half years, he has been in Gaza with the International Solidarity Movement, monitoring human rights violations by Israel, supporting the Palestinian popular resistance against the Israeli occupation and disseminating information about the situation in Gaza to his home country of … Continue reading


Updated on April 28, 2011
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Freedom Flotilla: We Will Not Be Intimidated

Posted on: April 13, 2011

13 April, 2011 | Freedom Flotilla

Athens – The Freedom Flotilla 2 Steering Committee met in Athens 9 and 10 April to continue preparations for the upcoming flotilla. Since the last meeting in Amsterdam, Israel has launched an international campaign of incitement against the Flotilla and its coalition members who are participating from around the world.

The Greek Ship to Gaza hosted this international meeting and emphasized that the Greek government has failed until now to pressure Israel to release the two Greek boats hijacked from international waters and held in Israel since 31st May 2010. The Greek Ship to Gaza has … Continue reading


Updated on April 13, 2011
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A call from Gazans to the world: “Keep trying to break the siege”

Posted on: July 15, 2010
A call from Gazans to the world: “Keep trying to break the siege”

In a press conference at the port of Gaza city yesterday government officials, fishing associations, non-governmental organisations and civil society groups reiterated their support for the attempts by international activists to break the Israeli siege of Gaza by sea.

Yesterday (July 14th 2010) many people amassed at the Gazan port to urge on the latest attempt by activists to enter the strip, this time by a Libyan chartered aid ship. It was the first serious attempt … Continue reading


Updated on July 15, 2010
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