Tag: Naval Blockade

  • Israeli Navy abducts 8 Gazan fishermen 100 meters off the coast

    6th of April 2009 at 7am: Israeli Naval forces abducted eight Palestinian fishermen (including two minors) from the Salateen area in the north of the Gaza Strip. Additionally, the fishermen’s four hassakas (small fishing boats) have been taken by the Israeli Navy. According to eyewitnesses, the fishermen were only about 100 meters from the coast…

  • Free Gaza Movement: Hope Fleet to Gaza

    Free Gaza Movement 30 March 2009 The Free Gaza Movement will again challenge Israel’s illegal closure of the Gaza Strip and collective punishment of its civilian population by sailing the HOPE FLEET, a flotilla of passenger and cargo ships, to Gaza at the end of May 2009 – to be followed by freedom riders this…

  • Free Gaza Movement stopped in international waters by Israeli navy

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The latest reports are of four Israeli gunboats saying they will use their weapons if the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY does not turn back to Greece. The boat is asserting its right to continue in international waters. The Free Gaza mercy ship, SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, left port in Cyprus this morning on an…