Tag: Vittorio Arrigoni

  • Il Manifesto: The angel factories

    By Vittorio Arrigoni Translated from Il Manifesto To view original article, published by Il Manifesto on the 30th December 2008, click here Jabilia, Bet Hanun, Rafah, Gaza City are the legs of the journey in my personal map of hell. Whatever the press releases from the summit of the Israeli military may say, recited parrot-style…

  • Vittorio Arrigoni writes from Gaza

    By Vittorio Arrigoni in Gaza Translated from Il Manifesto To view original article, published by Il Manifesto on the 29th December, click here 6:05 PM, Marna house, Gaza city An acrid smell of sulphur fills the air while the sky is shaken by earth-shattering rumbles. My ears are now deaf to the explosions while my…

  • Human Rights Defenders speak from Gaza as Israel kills over 200 people

    27th December 2008 – Human Rights Defenders from various countries are present in Gaza and are witnessing and documenting the current Israeli attacks on Gaza. Due to Israel’s policy of denying access to international media, human rights defenders and aid agencies to the Occupied Gaza Strip, many of these Human Rights Defenders arrived in Gaza…

  • Free Gaza Movement: Dignity pulls into Gaza Port despite Israeli threats

    Vittorio Arrigoni, one of the ISM volunteers kidnapped from Palestinian waters by the Israeli navy has returned to Gaza on-board the ‘Dignity’. Vittorio was deported by Israel, after engaging in a hunger-strike for the return of the Palestinian fishing trawlers stolen by the Israeli navy, despite never having been inside Israeli territory. He now returns…

  • Israel attempts to avoid court challenge by returning stolen Palestinian fishing boats

    Thursday 27th November, 2008 – Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Palestine Three Palestinian trawling vessels confiscated by Israeli naval forces were returned today almost immediately following yesterdays announcement that three Human Rights Groups had filed an appeal against Ehud Barak and the commander of the Israeli navy. The vessels were stolen from Gazan waters on 18th…