• Continued violence and repression against the popular protests against the wall in Ni’lin

    On the 7th of August around 300 hundred people protested against the building of the apartheid wall at the land of Ni’lin. Video courtesy of Israel Puermam The demonstration started at 11 am and marched from the village centre. It reached the construction site managing to stop the bulldozers from working for a while before…

  • Ynet: ‘Soft charges hurt more than bullet’

    Ashraf Abu Rahma, bound Palestinian fired at by IDF soldier, laments lenient charges filed by Military Prosecution against officer who held him during Naalin shooting incident By Ali Waked To view original article, published by Ynet on the 7th August, click here “This deplorable and ridiculous verdict takes me back to the incident, in which…

  • Free Gaza Movement Mission Statement

    To view the Free Gaza Movement website click here Background 2008 marks the 60-year anniversary of the Nakba, “the catastrophe”, when the overwhelming majority of Palestinians were forcibly evicted from their ancestral homeland to create the state of Israel. In contravention of International law, human rights, and basic principles of morality, Israel continues to deny…

  • Free Gaza Movement: An Israeli Jew in Gaza – A statement by Jeff Halper

    To visit the Free Gaza Movement website click here In another few days, I will sail on one of the Free Gaza movement boats from Cyprus to Gaza. The mission is to break the Israeli siege, an absolutely illegal siege which has plunged a million and a half Palestinians into wretched conditions: imprisoned in their…

  • BBC: Diary – Challenging Gaza blockade

    To view original reports, published by the BBC, click here Activists from the California-based Free Gaza Movement are planning to sail from Cyprus to Gaza in defiance of an Israeli blockade of the territory. The BBC’s Rachid Sekkai will be on board and sends his first diary entry. About 45 people are here in the…