Tag: Free Gaza Movement

  • 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…

  • Free Gaza Movement: ‘We do not seek a confrontation.’

    Free Gaza Movement “ALL WE WANT IS TO REACH GAZA. WE DO NOT SEEK A CONFRONTATION.” Activists aboard Gaza justice boat demand they be allowed to visit their friends & family in besieged Gaza, and deliver their cargo of medical supplies, children’s toys, and reconstruction kits. They invite the world to join them. (At Sea,…

  • Free Gaza Boat “Spirit of Humanity” departs Cyprus

    Free Gaza Movement UPDATE, June 30 03:03: We just spoke again with our people aboard the Spirit of Humanity. The Israeli Navy is continuing to try and intimidate the ship, and is actively jamming its radar, GPS, and navigation systems in direct violation of international maritime law. This jamming is extremely dangerous and directly threatens…

  • We did not leave Cyprus today

    Free Gaza Movement 25 June 2009 This is not the statement we in the Free Gaza Movement intended to release today. We had hoped to announce that our two ships, the Free Gaza and the Spirit of Humanity, departed from Larnaca Port on a 30-hour voyage to besieged Gaza, carrying human rights activists who have…