Tag: Naval Blockade
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FGM: Mercy Ship Departs for Gaza, “We are coming in on Tuesday”
For more information, please contact: (Cyprus/Gaza) Huwaida Arraf, +357 96 723 999 or +357 99 081 767 (Gaza) Ewa Jasiewicz, +972 598 700 497 (U.S.) Ramzi Kysia, +1 703 994 5422 UPDATE: The “SPIRIT OF HUMANITY” has returned to port in Cyprus for minor repairs. The crew & passengers plan to depart for Gaza in…
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Free Gaza Movement: URGENT! Israeli Navy Attacking Civilian Mercy Ship! TAKE ACTION IMMEDIATELY!
Video report from CNN Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a> Press Release by the Free Gaza Movement: The Dignity, a Free Gaza boat on a mission of mercy to besieged Gaza, is being attacked by the Israeli Navy in international waters. The Dignity has been surrounded by at least half-a-dozen Israeli warships. They are…
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Palestinians destroy sections of the wall separating Gaza and Egypt following intense Israeli attacks in Rafah
Parts of the wall between Gaza and Egypt were torn down according to International Human Rights Observers witnessing and documenting the Israeli attacks on Gaza. Video by ISM Gaza Strip British Human Rights Observer, Jenny Linnel, who is working with the International Solidarity Movement, was in Yibnah Camp in Rafah and confirmed that the Palestinian…
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Israeli navy again attack Gazan fishermen
On the 17th October, Three Human Rights Observers (HROs) accompanied a fleet of four Palestinian fishing boats, as they left the port in Gaza in the morning at 07:00. By 08:15 the fishing boats were proceeding in a southerly direction, 8 nautical miles from the Gazan coast. At this point, an Israeli naval gunboat approached…