Category: Press Releases

  • Free Gaza Movement stopped in international waters by Israeli navy

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The latest reports are of four Israeli gunboats saying they will use their weapons if the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY does not turn back to Greece. The boat is asserting its right to continue in international waters. The Free Gaza mercy ship, SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, left port in Cyprus this morning on an…

  • FGM: Spirit of Humanity resumes humanitarian mission

    For Immediate Release Larnaca, Cyprus – The Free Gaza Movement vessel, SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, will resume its emergency mission to the besieged Gaza Strip at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, January 14, 2009. The ship will carry desperately needed doctors, journalists, human rights workers, and members of parliaments as well as medical supplies donated by the…

  • FGM: Mercy Ship Departs for Gaza, “We are coming in on Tuesday”

    For more information, please contact: (Cyprus/Gaza) Huwaida Arraf, +357 96 723 999 or +357 99 081 767 (Gaza) Ewa Jasiewicz, +972 598 700 497 (U.S.) Ramzi Kysia, +1 703 994 5422 UPDATE: The “SPIRIT OF HUMANITY” has returned to port in Cyprus for minor repairs. The crew & passengers plan to depart for Gaza in…

  • Free Gaza to Israel: “We are coming in on Tuesday”

    For Immediate Release: (Cyprus, 11 January 2009) – The Free Gaza Movement ship, “SPIRIT OF HUMANITY,” will leave Larnaca Port at 12:00 noon, Monday, 12 January, on an emergency mission to besieged Gaza. The ship will carry desperately needed doctors, journalists, human rights workers, and members of several European parliaments as well as medical supplies.…

  • European MEPs enter Gaza

    Luisa Morgantini, Vice President of the European Parliament, and the MEPs delegation entered to Gaza Strip, today 11th January 2009, through Rafah border crossing. The delegation – composed by 8 MEPs belonging to different political groups and by one Member of the Italian Senate – will stay in Gaza from Saturday 10 to Tuesday 13…