Tag: Civil Peace Service Gaza
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Gaza fishermen defy naval blockade
20 July 2011 | Al Jazeera Emboldened by the ‘Freedom Flotilla’s’ attempt to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza by sea, some Gazan fishermen have been trying to sail beyond the three nautical mile limit imposed by Israel. The Oslo Accords allowed fishermen to work within 20 nautical miles of the coast, but Israel later reduced…
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CPS: Israeli ship attacks international solidarity boat crew off Gaza coast
14 July 2011 | Hama Waqum, Civil Peace Service Gaza I am writing this exactly twelve hours after I was attacked by an Israeli warship, off the Gaza coast. As a member of the Civil Peace Service, I board the Oliva boat around twice a week to monitor Gazan fishermen’s human rights. But today, it…
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CPS Gaza crew attacked by Israeli warship
13 July 2011 | Civil Peace Service Gaza For Immediate Release Israeli naval forces attacked the Civil Peace Service Gaza monitoring boat with water cannons earlier today. Civil Peace Service Gaza is an international third party non-violent initiative to monitor potential human rights violations in Gazan territorial waters. The initial attack happened at 12.05pm local time.…
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EI: Solidarity at sea on board the Oliva
12 July 2011 | Rana Baker, Electronic Intifada For years, Palestinian fishermen have been subject to routine attacks, shootings and arrests by the Israeli navy as they attempt to ply their trade in the seas off the coast of Gaza. A month ago, Oliva, the first boat to monitor human rights violations in the Palestinian…
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Israel deports Spanish aid worker
21 June 2011 | Civil Peace Service Gaza Ignacio Garcia-Pedraza, a Spanish PSCC worker and Al Quds University trainer, 36 years old and living in Madrid, has been informed this morning at 9:00 a.m. by the Israeli Ben Gurion airport authorities that he had been denied the entry into Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territory…
