To view the Free Gaza Movement website click here On Friday, November 7, the DIGNITY leaves at 5:00 pm from Larnaca to Gaza. This time, thirteen European Parliamentarians (from England, Ireland, Italy, Turkey, Wales, Switzerland, and Scotland) are on board. ...
Read More »Israeli navy spray chemical substance at Gazan fishermen
The Israeli navy continuously attacked Palestinian fishing boats in Gaza throughout yesterday (4th November), using live ammunition and a high-powered water cannon containing a noxious chemical substance. International Human Rights Observers (HROs) accompanying several fishing boats off the coast of ...
Read More »Five people injured as Ni’lin maintains its resistance to the construction of the apartheid wall
November 2, 2008 On the 2nd November, a demonstration against the Apartheid Wall began in Ni’lin at 1.30 in the afternoon. 50 Palestinians gathered with 6 internationals by the municipality and marched towards the construction site in hopes of intervening ...
Read More »Free Gaza Movement lands in Gaza
To view the Free Gaza Movement website click here LARNACA – The Free Gaza Movement is delighted to announce that their third boat, the Dignity, carrying 27 crew and passengers, arrived in Gaza at 8:10 Gaza time, in spite of ...
Read More »Israel declares that it will forcibly prevent the Free Gaza Movement from reaching Gaza Strip
To view the Free Gaza Movement website click here This morning (28th October), the Free Gaza Movement was informed through the media that the Israeli Navy is threatening to forcibly stop the Dignity from entering Gaza tomorrow morning. Israel has ...
Read More »Free Gaza Movement to set sail again
To view the Free Gaza Movement website click here On October 28, 2008, the Free Gaza Movement will set sail again for Gaza. On board will be a Nobel Peace Prize winner, five physicians, a member of the Israeli Knesset, ...
Read More »Israeli navy currently attacking Al-Mina, Rafah shore
20:00, 20th October, 2008 – Rafah, Southern Gaza Strip. Palestinian fishermen are currently under attack by Israeli naval forces in Al-Mina, Rafah. The Israeli navy is firing at the beach and at fishermen in the water, damaging their nets and ...
Read More »Settlers smash Palestinian family’s car while soldiers refuse to intervene during olive harvest in Azmut
At approximately 10:40 on Thursday morning a Palestinian family from Azmut, in the northeast of Nablus, was harvesting their land near the illegal Elon Moreh settlement when a group of five settlers terrorized the family. The settlers, wielding bats and ...
Read More »Three injured in Bilin weekly protest
Report by Popular Committee Against the Wall in Bilin To view website click here Friday 3/10/2008 The residents of Bil’in, joined by international and Israeli activists, gathered to demonstrate against the Apartheid Wall and settlement building on the 3rd October. ...
Read More »Former Iraq hostage, assaulted, unlawfully deported by Israel for human rights work, files official complaint
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND – Harmeet Singh Sooden, who was held hostage in Iraq for four months in 2005-2006, has filed an official complaint to the governments of Canada and New Zealand and the United Nations for human rights violations committed ...
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