Press Releases

2 July 2009 For Immediate Release London, 2 July, (ECESG) – The European campaign to end the siege on Gaza (ECESG) called today for international human rights organizations and lobbying groups to organize large protests in front of Israeli embassies ...

2 July 2009 For Immediate Release: Lubna Masarwa and Huwaida Arraf, both organisers of the Free Gaza Movement, have now been released from Ashdod Detention Facility, where military authorities had held them from 9.00 p.m. on 30th June until 1.00 ...

B’Tselem, The Association for Civil Rights in Israel, The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, Yesh Din 1 July 2009 The Israeli High Court ruled today in favor of changing the indictments filed against the soldier and commander who were ...

Free Gaza Movement Updates from the Free Gaza Movement The Free Gaza Movement is reporting that the passengers have been transferred to a prison in Ramle for illegal immigrants and will be tried for “entering Israel illegally”. Adam Qvist and ...

Free Gaza Movement “ALL WE WANT IS TO REACH GAZA. WE DO NOT SEEK A CONFRONTATION.” Activists aboard Gaza justice boat demand they be allowed to visit their friends & family in besieged Gaza, and deliver their cargo of medical ...

Free Gaza Movement UPDATE, June 30 03:03: We just spoke again with our people aboard the Spirit of Humanity. The Israeli Navy is continuing to try and intimidate the ship, and is actively jamming its radar, GPS, and navigation systems ...

Al Haq 30 June 2009 The Willful Killing of Aqel Srour Following a Ni’lin Demonstration against the Annexation Wall: a deplorable illustration of Impunity’s Slippery Slope As a Palestinian human rights organisation dedicated to the promotion and protection of human ...

For Immediate Release 27 June 2009: Israeli forces arrest 24 solidarity activists and 2 hired Palestinian Israeli drivers in the West Bank village of Saffa. At 7.30am, 35 Israeli and 10 international solidarity activists joined 3 Palestinian families from Beit ...

For Immediate Release: Friday, 26 June 2009: Bil’in village holds press conference and a demonstration against construction of the Apartheid Wall. Palestinian residents, alongside international and Israeli activists gathered today in Bil’in to demonstrate against the Wall. Before the demonstration, ...

Free Gaza Movement 25 June 2009 This is not the statement we in the Free Gaza Movement intended to release today. We had hoped to announce that our two ships, the Free Gaza and the Spirit of Humanity, departed from ...