FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE To view the Free Gaza Movement website click here For further information, contact: +6932 766496 for directions or Greta Berlin, +357 99 08 17 67 Nicosia/Lefkosia, Cyprus, August 9. The Free Gaza Movement announced yesterday that their ...
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Bil’in Popular Committee: Toilet water – the new kind of weapon used against the people from Bil’in
To view the village of Bil’in’s website click here Today, 8th August 2008, after the Friday Prayers, the inhabitants of Bil’in, Israeli, and international peace activists participated in a demonstration against the wall. They raised Palestinian flags and signs with ...
Read More »Israeli soldiers invade international apartment in Tel Rumeida
On Friday 8th of August at 20:45 two international volunteers came home to find their roof occupied by three soldiers. The soldiers had been occupying their roof terrace since 18:45. When asked what the soldiers were doing there, they responded ...
Read More »Israeli army arrest municipality member in Nablus
On the night between the 5th and 6th of August, Israeli army invaded Nablus to arrest Majida Fada, a 38-year elected member of the municipality. People from the neighborhood report that the army arrived around 1:30am, closing the area and ...
Read More »Continued violence and repression against the popular protests against the wall in Ni’lin
On the 7th of August around 300 hundred people protested against the building of the apartheid wall at the land of Ni’lin. Video courtesy of Israel Puermam The demonstration started at 11 am and marched from the village centre. It ...
Read More »Ynet: ‘Soft charges hurt more than bullet’
Ashraf Abu Rahma, bound Palestinian fired at by IDF soldier, laments lenient charges filed by Military Prosecution against officer who held him during Naalin shooting incident By Ali Waked To view original article, published by Ynet on the 7th August, ...
Read More »Free Gaza Movement Mission Statement
To view the Free Gaza Movement website click here Background 2008 marks the 60-year anniversary of the Nakba, “the catastrophe”, when the overwhelming majority of Palestinians were forcibly evicted from their ancestral homeland to create the state of Israel. In ...
Read More »Free Gaza Movement: An Israeli Jew in Gaza – A statement by Jeff Halper
To visit the Free Gaza Movement website click here In another few days, I will sail on one of the Free Gaza movement boats from Cyprus to Gaza. The mission is to break the Israeli siege, an absolutely illegal siege ...
Read More »BBC: Diary – Challenging Gaza blockade
To view original reports, published by the BBC, click here Activists from the California-based Free Gaza Movement are planning to sail from Cyprus to Gaza in defiance of an Israeli blockade of the territory. The BBC’s Rachid Sekkai will be ...
Read More »Ynet: Regiment commander to be dismissed over Naalin incident
Crime and punishment: Chief military prosecutor decides to dismiss armored corps lieutenant colonel after IDF soldier filmed shooting handcuffed Palestinian; commander, shooter to face criminal charges By Hanan Greenberg To view original article, published by Ynet on the 6th August, ...
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