• Al-Kurd family evicted from their home in East Jerusalem – Eight international solidarity activists arrested from protest camp

    Israeli police have evicted the Al-Kurd family from their home in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, and arrested 8 international solidarity activists that were staying on the property. The evicted Al-Kurd family have been staging a 3 1/2 month popular campaign against their eviction, establishing a protest camp and regular community actions (www.sheikhjarrah.com) At around 4:30am,…

  • Israeli soldiers terrorise villagers in Zawata

    Three households were terrorised by Israeli soldiers in the village of Zawata on Friday night, 7th November. At least twenty Israeli soldiers from the nearby military base at Shave Shomron stormed through the upper parts of the village on foot – throwing sound bombs and firing at family homes; surrounding houses and forcing families out…

  • FGM: Dignity arrives in Gaza

    To view the Free Gaza Website click here Larnaca: The DIGNITY pulled into Gaza at 9:15 a.m. Gaza time after an uneventful trip from Cyprus. The 23 passengers and crew on board were tired but ecstatic that they’d arrived. The 11 members of various European parliaments, originally denied entrance through the Rafah border, had made…

  • Maan: Third Free Gaza voyage successfully anchors in Gaza port

    To view original article, published by Maan News Agency on the 8th November, click here The third Free Gaza ship, the SS Dignity, anchored in the Gaza harbor on Saturday morning after setting sail from Cyprus Friday evening. Aboard were several European Parliamentarians from England, Italy and Switzerland as well as several Arab leaders, Human…

  • Second arson attack in Burin in a week

    For the second time in one week, Palestinian firefighters were called to put out a fire in Burin, a village south of Nablus. According to eyewitnesses, at approximately 3pm, on Thursday 6th November, Israeli settlers from the nearby illegal settlement of Bracha, burnt Palestinian farmers’ olive trees and agricultural irrigation systems. The attack took place…