OFF THE COAST OF GAZA - 1 September 2008: Israeli Naval vessels are currently firing on unarmed Palestinian fishing boats and international human rights workers off the coast of the Gaza Strip. The fishing boats are several miles off the coast of Gaza City, in Palestinian territorial waters. For more information, please contact: (at sea, off Gaza coast) Vittorio Arrigoni, +972 598 826 … [read more]

FREE GAZA MOVEMENT announces the arrival at 20:30 (10:00 PDT), Friday 29 August, 2008 of the FREE GAZA and LIBERTY vessels, in Larnaca Harbour, returning from Gaza, and a successful end to this first of such missions. FREE GAZA MOVEMENT announces the arrival at 20:30 (10:00 PDT), Friday 29 August, 2008 of the FREE GAZA and LIBERTY vessels, in Larnaca Harbour, returning from Gaza, and a … [read more]

Scottish human rights activists announced their intention to organize two trips soon by land and sea to break the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip with the participation of a number of Scottish lawmakers.     [ 02/09/2008 - 01:45 PM ]     BRUSSELS, (PIC)-- Scottish human rights … [read more]

Free Gaza Boats arrive in Gaza Gaza (23 August 2008) - Two small boats, the SS Free Gaza and the SS Liberty, successfully landed in Gaza early this evening, breaking the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip. The boats were crewed by a determined group of international human rights workers from the Free Gaza Movement. They had spent two years organizing the effort, raising money by giving small … [read more]

Taking the protest against the Gaza blockade to a new level, two boats packed with foreign left-wing activists will attempt to sail from Cyprus to the sealed Gaza harbor in two weeks' time. by FreeGaza Movement The operation is being directed by members of the International Solidarity Movement and the Israeli Commission against House Demolitions. A Web site, FreeGaza, has been set up to … [read more]

Press Release; Friday 18 July 2008 The Free Gaza Movement UK Setting Sail on August 5, 2008 to Break the Siege of Gaza Around 60 Palestinians, Israelis and Internationals from 15 countries will sail to Gaza during the sixty-year anniversary of the Nakba – the forcible expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians from their lands to create Israel –to challenge Israeli … [read more]

PRESS RELEASE By LUISA MORGANTINI, Vice President of the European Parliament, Rome, 11th July 2008 "The ongoing raids, closures, arrests and confiscations actuated by the Israeli army against Institutions, associations and even schools in Nablus are illegal actions, representing not only a clear violation of the International law and more suffering and injustice against the Palestinian … [read more]

A Palestinian-Scottish couple are driving to Gaza with 1.5 tons of medicine donated by the people of Scotland, leaving on Thursday July 10th. Khalil Al Niss and Linda Willis will take a van loaded with 1.5 tons of medical supplies from Scotland to Gaza, leaving from the Scottish Parliament at noon on Thursday, July 10th and arriving at the Rafah crossing in Egypt on Tuesday, July 15th. They … [read more]

by StopTheWall on Wed, 07/09/2008 - 13:33, http://www.bdsmovement.net/?q=node/179 On the fourth anniversary of the International Court of Justice’s ruling that Israel’s Wall is illegal, the BNC is calling on the EU not to upgrade its relationship with Israel and to suspend the EU Association Agreement. Today’s call is supported by 100 European civil society organizations. Join in the … [read more]

By Yoav Stern Israeli Arabs will distribute 20,000 booklets on the Nakba - the "catastrophe," what happened to the Palestinians after 1948 - outside of schools in Arab settlements throughout the country. A camera crew from the Qatar-based Al Jazeera television network will cover the handing out of the booklets tomorrow at 11 A.M. The booklets, which were written by 150 Palestinian children … [read more]

from Sameh A. Habeeb, Freelance Journalist based in Gaza, Palestine Palestinian Medical sources reported today Saturday evening that 2 patients died. The new patients died due to the Israeli occupation measures resulted in the suffocating siege imposed a year ago. The victim Lutfi Muhamad AL buhesiy,57, a Gaza resident was suffering from chronic heart disease. He tried several times to … [read more]

Ex-president says EU is colluding in a human rights crime, The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/26/israelandthepalestinians.usa Jonathan Steele and Jonathan Freedland The Guardian, Monday May 26 2008 Britain and other European governments should break from the US over the international embargo on Gaza, former US president Jimmy Carter told the Guardian yesterday. … [read more]