Free Gaza Movement
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GazaFriends: TAKE ACTION! to protect civilians in Gaza and human rights and humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian people
Take Action! CALL the Israeli Government and let them know that the mercy ship SPIRIT OF HUMANITY is coming to Gaza. Continue reading
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GazaFriends : MERCY SHIP DEPARTS FOR GAZA: “WE ARE COMING IN ON TUESDAY”
The Free Gaza Movement ship, “SPIRIT OF HUMANITY,” left Larnaca Port at 3:00 pm, Monday, 12 January, on an emergency mission to besieged Gaza. Continue reading
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The Newsletter of the Free Gaza Movement, 5 January, 2008
The Free Gaza Movement takes a stand for occupied Palestine and does not believe that the war on Gaza is a defense or in any way constructive or justified. Continue reading
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GazaFriends: We Do Not Ask Permission from Israel
The Free Gaza Movement is sending the Dignity on its fifth mission to Gaza with envoys on board from the people of Qatar. The boat also carries journalists, human rights observers, and Palestinians who want to return home and have been prevented from doing so by the Israeli occupation. Continue reading
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GazaFriends 11 December, 2008: Dignity Ship Leaves Gaza with Palestinian Students
The Free Gaza Ship “Dignity,” departed from Gaza International Port at 22:10 hours, Thursday 11 December. Aboard the ship were eleven Palestinian students who had been denied exit by Israel to attend their universities abroad. Over 700 students are currently trapped in Gaza, unable to obtain permission from Israel to continue their education. Continue reading
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Solidarity, not charity, for the people of Gaza By Ewa Jasiewicz
The humiliation of those trying to exit Gaza for medical treatment, the visitation of loved ones and for the right to pursue education also creates the fear of never being able to develop, to learn, to survive, to live, and to love. Freedom of Movement is a basic, human right. Continue reading
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GazaFriends: Update on the Dignity’s journey to Gaza (11am 9 Dec)
We haven’t been able to establish phone contact with the Dignity, but the last GPS position at 8:30am put them in international waters, off the coast of Haifa – right on schedule to reach Gaza today around mid-afternoon Continue reading
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GazaFriends: ‘Free Gaza’ Ship Leaves Today to Break Through Israeli Blockade for the Fourth Time
The Free Gaza Movement announced today that it would send a delegation from Cyprus to Gaza aboard their blockade-busting ship, the Dignity, at 11pm, Monday, 8 December. Continue reading
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Free Gaza to Aid Agencies: “Deliver it by Sea!”
18 November, 2008 The Free Gaza Movement today issued this open letter to all organizations delivering humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip Israel’s closure of its land borders with Gaza, and Egypt’s submission to Israeli pressure to close the Rafah border is a humanitarian disaster for 1.5 million Palestinians. The United Nations announced last Thursday Continue reading
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GazaFriends: European Parliamentarians Admonish Israel & Egypt for Border Closures to Gaza
A group of 11 European parliamentarians from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Italy and Switzerland today visited the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, calling for an end to the ongoing blockade. Continue reading
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GazaFriends On the Sea Again
On Friday, November 7, the SS DIGNITY leaves at 5:00 pm from Larnaca to Gaza. This time, thirteen members of the European Parliament from the England, Ireland, Italy, Turkey, Wales, Switzerland, and Scotland are on board. Continue reading
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Ramzi Kysia: GazaFriends “Nam, Nehnu Nastatyeh!” is Arabic for “Yes, We Can!” 29 October 2008 13:33:27 GMT
This morning I arrived in Gaza aboard the SS Dignity, part of a Free Gaza Movement delegation of twenty seven doctors, lawyers, teachers, and human rights activists from across the world, including Mairead Maguire – the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Continue reading
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GazaFriends: Israel Threatens to Forcibly Stop Us
For Immediate Release October 28, 2008 Contact: Greta Berlin, Cyprus: +357 99 08 17 67 Angela Godfrey Goldstein, Jerusalem: +972 547 366 393 Huwaida Arraf (on boat): +357 96 723 999 /SS Dignity: +357 967 80 329 Osama Qashoo, +447833381660 This morning, the Free Gaza Movement was informed through the media that the Israeli Navy Continue reading
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Gaza Friends: YES, WE ARE COMING
As part of the message, we invited Aharon Abramovitz, Minister of Foreign Affairs and/or Ehud Barak, Minister of Defense, to join the voyage to witness first hand the devastating effects of Israel’s illegal policies on the occupied civilian population of the Gaza Strip (Please leave your weapons at home, we are nonviolent). Continue reading
The New Dark Age 