Tag: Vittorio Arrigoni
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Concern grows over flotilla missing and prisoners
Free Gaza Movement & ISM London FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE UK, 2pm, Tuesday 1st June International Solidarity Movement volunteers today expressed grave concern over the fate of wounded, imprisoned and missing flotilla activists. The group said, with an information blackout from Israel preventing news of their plight reaching the media, speculation is mounting about the Internationals’…
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Vittorio Arrigoni: In Gaza Hippocrates is dead
Published by Il Manifesto, 10th January 2009. Translated from Italian by Daniela Filippin In Gaza, a firing squad put Hippocrates up against a wall, aimed and fired. The absurd declarations of an Israeli secret services’ spokesman, according to which the army was given the green light in firing at ambulances because they allegedly carried terrorists,…
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Israel continues to target Palestinian medics in Gaza
A Palestinian medic, traveling with two international ISM activists, has been shot by Israeli forces in Jabaliya, northern Gaza. Red Crescent medic, Hassan al-Attal, was shot through the thigh while collecting a civilian killed by Israeli fire from Zemmo, east of Jabaliya refugee camp. Canadian and Spanish ISM activistst were present as it happened; “It…