Ha’aretz 3 July 2009 A United Nations human rights investigator on Thursday called Israel’s seizure of a ship carrying relief aid for the Gaza Strip “unlawful” and said its blockade of the territory constituted a “continuing crime against humanity”. Israeli ...
Read More »Action Alert: protests in front of Israeli embassies tomorrow
2 July 2009 For Immediate Release London, 2 July, (ECESG) – The European campaign to end the siege on Gaza (ECESG) called today for international human rights organizations and lobbying groups to organize large protests in front of Israeli embassies ...
Read More »Cynthia McKinney remains imprisoned in Israel after Gaza-bound boat is seized
Fox News 2 July 2009 Former U.S. lawmaker and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney and several other human rights activists remained in an Israeli prison Thursday after refusing to sign a deportation form that they claim is self-incriminating. In ...
Read More »Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire speaks from Israeli jail cell after arrest on boat delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza
Democracy Now 2 July 2009 Irish Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire speaks to us from her jail cell in Israel. She was taken into custody along with twenty others, including former US Congress member Cynthia McKinney, when the Israeli military ...
Read More »Detained peace activist: we slept with cockroaches
Daniel Edleson | YNet News 2 July 2009 An Israeli citizen who was among 21 peace activists apprehended by the IDF en route to the Gaza Strip says she was held under conditions resembling a “horror movie.” Houida Araf, who ...
Read More »Free Gaza Movement’s two Palestinian ’48 organisers now released from Israeli prison and detention
2 July 2009 For Immediate Release: Lubna Masarwa and Huwaida Arraf, both organisers of the Free Gaza Movement, have now been released from Ashdod Detention Facility, where military authorities had held them from 9.00 p.m. on 30th June until 1.00 ...
Read More »Israeli incursion in Al Faraheen
ISM Gaza | Farming Under Fire 1 July 2009 Israeli forces have entered the village of Faraheen this morning and are still currently there using bulldozers to destroy farmland. According to local villagers there are now 2 graders, 4 tanks, ...
Read More »Finding fish, but Israelis too
Eva Bartlett | Inter Press Service 1 July 2009 At 6am on Jun. 16, Sadallah and his brother Abdel Hadi Sadallah, in their early twenties, went roughly 400 metres out to sea off the coast of Sudaniya in Gaza’s northwest. ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
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