Tag: Naval Blockade

  • Escalation of attacks by the Israeli navy on the CPS Gaza boat

    23 July 2011 | Civil Peace Service Gaza Footage of the second water-cannon attack by the Israeli navy against the Civil Peace Service Gaza boat “Oliva” on Thursday, July 14, 2011. The camera used was lost in the sea when the crew evacuated the “Oliva,” recovered in a fishing net, and returned on Wednesday, July…

  • CPS: Israeli ship attacks international solidarity boat crew off Gaza coast

    14 July 2011 | Hama Waqum, Civil Peace Service Gaza I am writing this exactly twelve hours after I was attacked by an Israeli warship, off the Gaza coast. As a member of the Civil Peace Service, I board the Oliva boat around twice a week to monitor Gazan fishermen’s human rights. But today, it…

  • A call from Gazans to the world: “Keep trying to break the siege”

    In a press conference at the port of Gaza city yesterday government officials, fishing associations, non-governmental organisations and civil society groups reiterated their support for the attempts by international activists to break the Israeli siege of Gaza by sea. Yesterday (July 14th 2010) many people amassed at the Gazan port to urge on the latest…

  • Time to break the siege on Gaza: A survivor’s account of Mavi Marmara

    International Solidarity Movement 7 June 2010 During the Israeli attack on the Mavi Maramara, deep in international waters, I was inside the body of the ship. We were unarmed civilians ranging in age from a one-year-old child to an 88-year-old priest. We were going to Gaza to break the siege that Israel has imposed on…

  • Israeli military forcibly stops aid boat to Gaza — again

    Free Gaza Movement 5 June 2010 (Off the Gaza coast, 5 JUNE) – Just before 9am this morning, the Israeli military forcibly siezed the Irish-owned humanitarian relief ship, the MV Rachel Corrie, from delivering over 1000 tons of medical and construction supplies to besieged Gaza. For the second time in less then a week, Israeli…