Veröffentlicht: 9. August 2009
Since last Monday, the Rafah crossing, the border between Gaza and Egypt is open and will be still open today, a situation that never happened since 3 years, and we hope it will not be closed again.
Thousands people crossed the border and get in and out Gaza.
Since last Monday, the Rafah crossing, the border between Gaza and Egypt is open and will be still open today, a situation that never happened since 3 years, and we hope it will not be closed again.
Thousands people crossed the border and get in and out Gaza.
It is always...
Veröffentlicht: 27. July 2009
By Werner Lange, July 25, 2009
This was my first trip to the Middle East, and it was an eye-opener as well as heart-breaker. It was an unforgettable experience filled with the good, the bad, the ugly and the beautiful. Let me start with the good.
Our delegation of some 200 persons was a good one, a very...
Veröffentlicht: 27. July 2009
Iraq war veteran and ANSWER Coalition representative Michael Prysner shares his experience as a member of the Viva Palestina delegation to Gaza.
Before our arrival in Gaza, British MP George Galloway asked his Palestinian contacts there what they needed the most. Among other things, they said they needed vehicles, medical aid and school supplies. But the number one thing that they needed, the one thing they wanted above all else, was us....
Veröffentlicht: 27. July 2009
The Viva Palestina U.S. convoy faced one obstacle after another, but ultimately succeeded in breaking the blockade and entering Gaza with vital aid for the besieged Palestian population.
The Egyptian government has closely collaborated with Israel’s suffocating and criminal blockade for more than two years, and set up a broad range of administrative obstacles that delayed our group’s entry into Gaza.
Our delegation was required to obtain “Gaza affidavits” notarized by...
Veröffentlicht: 19. July 2009
Written by Free Gaza Team | 06 July 2009
“The landing of two wooden boats carrying human rights activists in Gaza is an important symbolic victory ... Above all, what is being tested is whether the imaginative engagement of dedicated private citizens can influence the struggle of a beleaguered people for basic human rights, and whether...
Veröffentlicht: 16. July 2009
Press Release 14th July 2009
Palestine Return Centre (PRC) expressed deep anxiety towards Israeli practises in occupied Palestinian territories. International laws, UN resolutions, International court of justice, 4th Geneva conventions and many other charters are being repeatedly and clearly violated by Israel which is meet...
Veröffentlicht: 16. July 2009
July 14, 2009, 11 pm, Cairo, http://www.vivapalestina-us.org/
The Viva Palestina US caravan has received a permit to allow the group passage through the Rafah gate and into Gaza after spending 10 days in Cairo trying to overcome a series of bureaucratic delays.
The American convoy is mobilizing to carry busloads of supplies to the people of...
Veröffentlicht: 4. July 2009
from Prison Cell, Givon Jail, Ramle, Israel
Adie Mormech, one of over 21 human rights workers and crew taken prisoner on Tuesday 30th June when their boat was forcibly boarded by the Israeli navy, has spoken by mobile phone from his prison cell at Givon jail, Ramle, near Tel Aviv.
Amongst the other prisoners from the Free Gaza Movement...
Veröffentlicht: 4. July 2009
Press Update From The Free Gaza Movement
Larnaca, Cypus, July 3, 2009: This morning, the five kidnapped passengers from Bahrain left Israel via a private jet sent by their king. They will hold a press conference in Bahrain tonight at 7 pm Bahrain time. The two Al Jazeera journalists will be freed sometime today, their equipment given back...
Veröffentlicht: 4. July 2009
PRESS RELEASE, 2 July 2009
GENEVA - The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Richard Falk, denounced the unlawful naval seizure by an Israeli gunboat on the high seas of a ship carrying medicine and reconstruction material to blockaded people of Gaza....