Tag: Cast Lead

  • Free Gaza Movement stopped in international waters by Israeli navy

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The latest reports are of four Israeli gunboats saying they will use their weapons if the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY does not turn back to Greece. The boat is asserting its right to continue in international waters. The Free Gaza mercy ship, SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, left port in Cyprus this morning on an…

  • FGM: Spirit of Humanity resumes humanitarian mission

    For Immediate Release Larnaca, Cyprus – The Free Gaza Movement vessel, SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, will resume its emergency mission to the besieged Gaza Strip at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, January 14, 2009. The ship will carry desperately needed doctors, journalists, human rights workers, and members of parliaments as well as medical supplies donated by the…

  • UNRWA emergency shelters and bombed schools

    Across Gaza, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is setting up emergency shelters in its schools. Despite two such shelters being cynically targeted by Israeli shelling in northern Gaza last week, many families still seek refuge in UNRWA schools simply because they have nowhere else to go. The massacre on 6th January at…