Tag: Gaza

  • Israel declares that it will forcibly prevent the Free Gaza Movement from reaching Gaza Strip

    To view the Free Gaza Movement website click here This morning (28th October), the Free Gaza Movement was informed through the media that the Israeli Navy is threatening to forcibly stop the Dignity from entering Gaza tomorrow morning. Israel has not bothered to inform us of a legitimate reason for preventing us from delivering medical…

  • Participants of Gaza mental health conference denied entry to Gaza protest at Erez crossing

    About 80 international, Israeli and Palestinian protesters gathered at the Erez crossing to the Gaza strip on Sunday to demonstrate against the Israeli government’s denial of entry for health professionals planning to attend the International Gaza Community Mental Health Program Conference. Multiple armed border police pushed the protesters back from the fence of the crossing…

  • Israeli forces shoot at farmers ‘buffer zone’ in Gaza

    This is a compilation report of various times ISM Gaza Strip volunteers have spent with farmers in Al-Faraheen Abasan Al-Kabeera, near Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Palestine There is a “Buffer Zone”, declared by the Israeli occupation force army, along the entire eastern “border” of the Gaza Strip. Entire farms within 300 to 500 meters distance…

  • Israeli navy escalates attacks against Gaza’s fishermen

    Wednesday 22nd October, 2008 – off the coast of the Gaza Strip. Three international human rights observers (HRO’s) accompanied three Palestinian fishing vessels from the port of Gaza City, as they trawled offshore in Palestinian territorial waters. At about 08:30 (approximately 8 nautical miles from the coast) a Palestinian fishing boat with an international HRO…

  • Free Gaza Movement to set sail again

    To view the Free Gaza Movement website click here On October 28, 2008, the Free Gaza Movement will set sail again for Gaza. On board will be a Nobel Peace Prize winner, five physicians, a member of the Israeli Knesset, and a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council. The boat will again carry 26 passengers…