Tag Archives: Gaza

18th November – British politicians, MP Clare Short and Baronness Jenny Tonge, both issue statements regarding the arrests made by Israeli forces today The fifteen Palestinian fishermen abducted from Palestinian waters this morning (10am 18th November) are still being held ...

Gaza City, 10 a.m.- Fifteen Palestinian fishermen and 3 international Human Rights Observers (HRO’s) were surrounded by the Israeli Navy and taken from their boats 7 miles off the coast of Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip. The fishermen and the ...

By Donna Wallach Al-Faraheen, Abasan Al-Kabeera, Gaza Strip, Palestine, 12th November 2008 On Wednesday 12th November, five international volunteer Human Rights Observers, most of them members of ISM Gaza Strip, went to Al-Faraheen, east of Khan Younis to pull weeds ...

Claims of 14 deaths in previous incidents By Billy Briggs To view original article, published by The Sunday Herald on the 16th November, click here A SCOTTISH human rights activist has filmed the Israeli navy firing machine guns at unarmed ...

On 15th November, 2008, seven human rights observers accompanied four Palestinian trawling vessels from the port of Gaza City as they fished in Palestinian territorial waters. At approximately 09:00 an Israeli naval gunboat marked ‘833’ approached one of the fishing ...

World body says doesn’t have enough food to distribute because of Israeli siege on Strip Associated Press To view original article, published by Ynet on the 15th November, click here UN aid workers are turning away thousands of Gaza residents ...

By Gideon Levy The young fisherman is now in hospital, feeble and pale, one leg in a cast held in place by iron screws. He is awash with pain. His mother does not leave his bedside. A blind Palestinian physician ...

PRESS RELEASE 12 November 2008 For Immediate Use Dr Bill Wilson, SNP MSP for the West of Scotland, today announced that he had suggested the Israeli Embassy in London launch an inquiry into the “misinformation” he implied it was being ...

Fukharee, Gaza Strip, Palestine, 11th November 2008 By Donna Wallach On Tuesday 11th November 2008, four international Human Rights Observers accompanied some farmers to plow their fields for wheat, rye and lentils. The day started out with a long walk ...

To view the Free Gaza Website click here Larnaca: The DIGNITY pulled into Gaza at 9:15 a.m. Gaza time after an uneventful trip from Cyprus. The 23 passengers and crew on board were tired but ecstatic that they’d arrived. The ...