Tag: Global Actions

  • 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…

  • 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 military officials, a source in the Attorney-General’s Office told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. Late…

  • 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…