Free Gaza
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GazaFriends: Free Gaza needs your help to send more boats to Gaza
Due to Israel’s hijacking of our boat, the Spirit of Humanity last month, we have had to change our plans. No, we are not backing down. Now, more than ever, we believe it’s critical to continue these missions, and demonstrate the power of the international civilian community to stand up to cruelty, human rights abuses,… Continue reading
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Video: Cynthia McKinney on Running the Gaza Blockade, and Black Solidarity With Palestine
Video: TThe accomplished filmmakers at SleptOn.Com sat down with former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney after her release from an Israeli prison. Continue reading
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[GazaFriends] House of Commons debate on the actions of the Israeli Navy tonight 13 July, 2009
The House of Commons will tonight be debating the interception of a boat in international waters by the Israeli Navy and the abduction of six British civilians on board. The debate[1] will be led by Emily Thornberry, MP, and constituent MP for Alex Harrison, a human rights worker who was one of those abducted. Continue reading
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Video Free Gaza Live from the Spirit of Humanity
The following video is the last footage taken onboard the Spirit Of Humanity before its voyage, to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza, was prematurely halted by Israeli special forces. It shows the atmosphere inside the cabin as the crew try to negotiate with the Israeli ship via radio. Continue reading
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Video leading to capture of Cynthia McKinney and Spirit of Humanity
Video taken on the boat “Spirit of Humanity” of Israeli Navy approach and threat before capture of Cynthia McKinney and FreeGaza. Continue reading
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Action alert for Jenny and Natalie – “You will never leave Gaza”
Since the end of May Jenny has been trying to leave and return home via the border crossing at Rafah into Egypt. She keeps getting turned away, most recently under pretty extreme circumstances, as outlined below. Natalie also needs to leave Gaza in order to take up her place at a British University. The Egyptian… Continue reading
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Palestine: Letter from an Israeli Jail By Cynthia McKinney
During Operation Cast Lead, U.S.-supplied F-16’s rained hellfire on a trapped people. Ethnic cleansing became full scale outright genocide. U.S.-supplied white phosphorus, depleted uranium, robotic technology, DIME weapons, and cluster bombs – new weapons creating injuries never treated before by Jordanian and Norwegian doctors. I was later told by doctors who were there in Gaza… Continue reading
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‘Freegaza21’ deportees to arrive at Heathrow 13.30 hours Monday 6th July’
On Sunday 5th July the six British crew and passengers of the Spirit of Humanity were moved to detention cells at Ben Gurion Airport, following a court hearing at which the orders for their deportation from Israel were made. The captain of the Spirit, Denis Healey, and the other five British human rights activists, are… Continue reading
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Gaza activist talks to Al Jazeera from Israeli jail – 4 July, 2009
The Israeli prison guards are denying the right for Mairead to access her medicine. Continue to email and call Mark Regev and Shlomo Dror and express your outrage over the treatment of the FreeGaza21 while they are imprisoned. The women have no access to their luggage or their clothing. Continue reading
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Free Gaza Movement, 4 July, 2009 – Report from the Kidnapped Passengers in Ramle Prison, July 4, 2009
The majority of the group ended up in Ramle Prison. Those of us who are Free Gaza organizers had been hearing some news from them, statements, interviews and letters since they arrived. From the first night, the Free Gaza 21 have been busy trying to get news out of the prison about the illegality of… Continue reading
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Prison Cell, Givon Jail, Ramle, Israel: Interview from a kidnapped passenger, Adie Mormech
This is not about us here in the cells, it’s about the denial of human rights to the people of Palestine, and in particular the inhumane blockade of Gaza. People must not forget about what is happening to Gaza. At the moment they are even being denied food and medical supplies. After the carnage of… Continue reading
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Video: Free Gaza News Press Conference
Video: In three days, the Free Gaza movement sails 240 miles from Cyprus to Gaza, its eighth mission to break Israels draconian siege on 1.5 million Palestinians there. In the holds of the FREE GAZA and the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY will be tons of cement, and suitcases full of toys, crayons and coloring books for… Continue reading
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Video: GazaFriends – We are sailing again
We want to raise international awareness about the prison-like closure of the Gaza Strip and pressure the international community to review its sanctions policy and end its support for continued Israeli occupation. Continue reading
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GazaFriends: “Disappeared” Free Gaza Activist Theresa McDermott Found in Israel’s Ramleh Prison
Scottish activist Theresa McDermott has been found in Ramleh prison four days after she was “disappeared” by the Israel government after being forcibly removed from a seaborne Lebanese aid mission to Gaza. Continue reading
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GazaFriends: Israel attacks Lebanese boat and beats passengers
On board was an elderly patriarch from Jerusalem as well as several Lebanese human rights watchers. According to eye witnesses, the passengers were beaten and much of the boat destroyed. Continue reading
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GazaFriends: ‘The Ceasefire’ – by Ewa Jasiewicz, reporting from Gaza
Last night was a quiet one in Jabaliya. ‘Only’ six homes bombed into the ground, the Market, again, maybe four lightly injured people – shrapnel to the face injuries – and no martyrs. Continue reading
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GazaFriends: FREE GAZA TO ISRAEL: “WE ARE COMING IN ON TUESDAY”
The Free Gaza Movement ship, “SPIRIT OF HUMANITY,” will leave Larnaca Port at 12:00 noon, Monday, 12 January, on an emergency mission to besieged Gaza. Continue reading
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URGENT! Israeli Navy Attacking Civilian Mercy Ship! TAKE ACTION IMMEDIATELY!
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 firing live ammunition around the Dignity, and one of the warships has rammed the civilian craft causing an… Continue reading
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Free Gaza Goes Fourth – Setting Sail Again The Newsletter of the Free Gaza Movement 1/2008, Dec. 8
The Free Gaza Movement has successfully sailed three times from Cyprus to Gaza in a historic and ongoing endeavor to break the siege of Gaza. Now it goes fourth. The next voyage is scheduled for this Monday night and the ship has left the port. Continue reading
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GazaFriends: Dignity to Gaza – “We’re Back!” – Fourth Successful Voyage Breaks Through Siege of Gaza
The Free Gaza Movement ship “Dignity” successfully broke through the Israeli blockade for the fourth time since August, arriving in Gaza Port at 2:45pm, Tuesday 9 December. The ship carried one ton of medical supplies and high-protein baby formula, in addition to a delegation of international academics, humanitarian and human rights workers. Continue reading
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