• Israeli navy arrests passengers on Free Gaza Movement boat

    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 Adam Shapiro taken away in a truck for deportation. Mairead forcibly removed from rest of…

  • Israeli Navy takes control of aid boat headed for Gaza

    Ali Waked & Anat Shalev | YNet News 30 June 2009 At around noon Tuesday the Israeli Navy intercepted and took control of a boat that had set sail for the Gaza Strip with three tons of medical supplies, Palestinian sources said, adding that the Navy jammed the boat’s radio signals. The IDF Spokesperson’s Office…

  • YNet News: ‘Palestinians: IDF sanctions land theft’

    Aviad Glickman | YNet News 30 June 2009 Two residents of the West Bank Palestinian village of Qadum filed a High Court petition against the Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday asking that it overturn a military appellate board decision and order a Kedumim settler who they claim invaded their land to return it to them.…

  • Israel demolishes Palestinian house on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives

    Ma’an News 30 June 2009 Two women were hospitalized after Israel’s Jerusalem Municipality demolished a house on the Mount of Olives in occupied East Jerusalem on Monday morning. During the demolition Israeli police clashed with inhabitants of the house, bruising nine of them. The destruction came a day after the municipality declared that it would…

  • UN assesses trauma of Gaza conflict

    Al Jazeera 29 June 2009 A UN human rights mission on the Gaza conflict is hearing from a range of experts on the social and the psychological effect of Israel’s 22-day war on Gaza. On the second of the two-day inquiry on Monday, a child psychologist told the panel that an estimated 20 per cent…