29 May 2011 | Free Gaza Sign the petition and get updated news about the Freedom Flotilla II – Stay Human We are writing to ask for your support for the Gaza Freedom Flotilla scheduled to set sail in the ...
Read More »Breaking the Gaza embargo and Israeli piracy
10 May 2011 | Huwaida Arraf, Noam Chomsky and Gabriel Schivone A year ago this month, Israel shocked the world when it attacked a humanitarian convoy on its way to Gaza in international waters, killing 9 civilians, injuring dozens more, ...
Read More »Remembering Vik
Jeff Halper | Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions Less than two weeks after losing another friend and comrade, Juliano Mer-Khamis, I now have to mourn and remember my fellow Free Gaza shipmate Vittorio (Vik) Arrigoni, who was brutally murdered last ...
Read More »Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank unite in mourning of slain activist Vittorio Arrigoni
International Solidarity Movement Gaza FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Palestinians across the Gaza strip and the West Bank will join today in mourning slain activist Vittorio Arrigoni. People will gather both in the Al Manara square in Ramallah and at Al Jundi ...
Read More »Palestinians call for release of Italian activist kidnapped in Gaza
International Solidarity Movement & Free Gaza Movement FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (April 14, 2011) – Today, our friend and colleague, Vittorio Arrigoni, a journalist and human rights defender working in the Gaza Strip, was kidnapped in Gaza. Vittorio has been active ...
Read More »Freedom Flotilla: We Will Not Be Intimidated
13 April, 2011 | Freedom Flotilla Athens – The Freedom Flotilla 2 Steering Committee met in Athens 9 and 10 April to continue preparations for the upcoming flotilla. Since the last meeting in Amsterdam, Israel has launched an international campaign ...
Read More »A call from Gazans to the world: “Keep trying to break the siege”
In a press conference at the port of Gaza city yesterday government officials, fishing associations, non-governmental organisations and civil society groups reiterated their support for the attempts by international activists to break the Israeli siege of Gaza by sea. Yesterday ...
Read More »US to Gaza announces plan to join the next Freedom Flotilla
U.S. Boat to Gaza FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 14, 2010 This is an important moment in history. In the aftermath of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla massacre and increased world-wide scrutiny of Israel’s blockade of Gaza, the Israeli government has mounted ...
Read More »Time to break the siege on Gaza: A survivor’s account of Mavi Marmara
International Solidarity Movement 7 June 2010 During the Israeli attack on the Mavi Maramara, deep in international waters, I was inside the body of the ship. We were unarmed civilians ranging in age from a one-year-old child to an 88-year-old ...
Read More »Action Alert: Israeli forces sieze MV Rachel Corrie
Just before 9am GMT this morning, the Israeli military forcibly seized the Irish-owned humanitarian relief ship, the MV Rachel Corrie, from delivering over 1000 tons of medical and construction supplies to besieged Gaza. For the second time in less then ...
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