Tag: Gaza

  • Interview with Mona El-Farra about the Free Gaza Movement

    By Fida Qishta Fida Qishta interviews Mona El-Farra, of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society for the Gaza Strip, regarding the pending arrival of the Free Gaza Movement who will be sailing to Gaza soon in efforts to break the siege. To view the Free Gaza Movement website click here

  • Maan: Siege-breaking voyage to Gaza delayed by bad weather

    To view original article, published by Maan News Agency on the 12th August, click here A planned siege-breaking voyage to Gaza has been delayed by inclement weather at the Island of Crete, an official said on Tuesday. Jamal Al-Khudari, chairman of the Popular Committee Against the Siege, and a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council…

  • Free Gaza Movement: SS Free Gaza and SS Liberty arrive in Chania, Crete, Saturday 9th August at 21:00 p.m

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE To view the Free Gaza Movement website click here For further information, contact: +6932 766496 for directions or Greta Berlin, +357 99 08 17 67 Nicosia/Lefkosia, Cyprus, August 9. The Free Gaza Movement announced yesterday that their boats, the SS FREE GAZA and the SS LIBERTY, destined to break the Israeli siege…

  • Free Gaza Movement Mission Statement

    To view the Free Gaza Movement website click here Background 2008 marks the 60-year anniversary of the Nakba, “the catastrophe”, when the overwhelming majority of Palestinians were forcibly evicted from their ancestral homeland to create the state of Israel. In contravention of International law, human rights, and basic principles of morality, Israel continues to deny…

  • Free Gaza Movement: An Israeli Jew in Gaza – A statement by Jeff Halper

    To visit the Free Gaza Movement website click here In another few days, I will sail on one of the Free Gaza movement boats from Cyprus to Gaza. The mission is to break the Israeli siege, an absolutely illegal siege which has plunged a million and a half Palestinians into wretched conditions: imprisoned in their…