Category: Press Releases

  • Human Rights Defenders speak from Gaza as Israel kills over 200 people

    27th December 2008 – Human Rights Defenders from various countries are present in Gaza and are witnessing and documenting the current Israeli attacks on Gaza. Due to Israel’s policy of denying access to international media, human rights defenders and aid agencies to the Occupied Gaza Strip, many of these Human Rights Defenders arrived in Gaza…

  • Neta Golan released from Israeli jail

    Neta Golan, arrested leaving Gaza on the 22nd December through Erez crossing, has been released today by Israeli police following her second appearance in court in Kiryat Gat. She was not charged and was released without bail. Neta Golan was kept in isolation for the duration of her time in prison, but had this to…

  • Neta Golan arrested by Israeli police after attempting to leave Gaza

    Neta Golan, an Israeli citizen and co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), has been arrested by Israeli police while attempting to leave Gaza through the Erez border crossing. Neta Golan, 38, arrived Gaza on the 20th December, along with 17 human rights observers on the SS Dignity, the fifth boat to break the Israeli…