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 ...
Read More »J-Post: Israel battles Spanish arrest warrants
By Ksenia Svetlova To view original article, published by the Jerusalem Post on the 9th August, click here Israel is battling hard to overturn a Spanish court’s decision to issue arrest warrants against six current and former politicians and senior ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »BBC: Diary – Challenging Gaza blockade
To view original reports, published by the BBC, click here Activists from the California-based Free Gaza Movement are planning to sail from Cyprus to Gaza in defiance of an Israeli blockade of the territory. The BBC’s Rachid Sekkai will be ...
Read More »The Guardian: Cherie Blair’s sister joins battle to break Gaza blockade
By Rachel Williams To view original article, published by The Guardian on the 5th August, click here A group of activists including Tony Blair’s sister-in-law Lauren Booth plans to break Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip by sailing into the ...
Read More »Free Gaza: Can unarmed seaborne civilians break the siege of Gaza?
A press conference at The Journalists’ House, Nicosia At RIK / CBC Avenue 12, Nicosia Monday, 4th August, 2008 at 10.00 a.m. [Camera crews to come early, please, for set up] Inaugurating The Free Gaza Movement Sailing to Gaza DESTINATION: ...
Read More »Give ‘Free Gaza Movement’ thumbs up!
By Debbie Menon Edward Said reminded the world shortly before his death in 2003 that it is easier for the West to demonise the Palestinian – through ‘the vicious media and government campaign against Arab society, culture, history and mentality’ ...
Read More »The National: West Bank construction challenged
By Brendan Howley To view original article, published by The National on 21st July, click here In an inventive legal action, two lawyers for the West Bank Palestinian village of Bi’ilin have filed a civil statement of claim against a ...
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