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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 […]

August 6, 2008
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 […]

August 6, 2008
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 […]

August 6, 2008