Category: Press Releases
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FGM: We will resist Israel’s attempts to stop us
Free Gaza Movement FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE As Israel continues to insist it will stop the seven-ship international Freedom Flotilla, two more ships departed from Greece to Gaza today. A 2000 ton cargo ship and fifty-person passenger ship owned by the European Campaign Against the Siege of Gaza, and Swedish/Greek Ship to Gaza campaigns left Athens…
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Palestinian boy shot dead east of Ramallah
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 15 May 2010 Aysar Yasser alZaben, 16 years old, was shot in his back yesterday evening in his family’s lands in Mazra’a alSharqia, east of Ramallah, apparently by a settler. Aysar alZaben’s body was found in his plot by family members only hours after he was shot. He was found lying…
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FGM: Israel’s Intimidation Tactics Won’t Stop Us, First Ship Sets Sail for Gaza!
Free Gaza Movement FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 14, 2010 At 22:45 local time tonight, the MV Rachel Corrie, a 1200-ton cargo ship, part of the eight-vessel Freedom Flotilla, set sail from Ireland on its way to the Mediterranean Sea. There, ships from Turkey and Greece will join her, then sail to Gaza. This past week…
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Palestinian Youth Shot Dead East of Ramallah
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 14 May 2010 Aysar Yasser alZaben, 16 years old, was shot in his back yesterday evening in his family’s lands in Mazra’a alSharqia, east of Ramallah, apparently by a settler. Aysar alZaben’s body was found in his plot by family members only hours after he was shot. He was found lying…
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Israel admits use of Shin Bet to watch international activist
International Solidarity Movement 4 May 2010 For immediate release: Ramallah, Occupied Palestinian Territories, PM – Israel has exposed the extent of its crackdown on resistance in an affidavit submitted to the Supreme Court on April 29, claiming that the Shin Bet intelligence agency has been conducting surveillance on ISM activist and Australian citizen Bridget Chappell…