• Second flotilla ends as Israel seizes boat

    Maan News Agency, July 21, 2011 Early Tuesday morning, the Israeli navy overtook the Dignite Al Karame. A French-flagged boat, it was the only vessel of the flotilla that managed to reach international waters. The Dignite Al Karame’s attempt to challenge Israel’s illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip came a month after the largest ship, …

  • Greece halts flotilla bound for Gaza

    Maan News Agency, July 1, 2011 The US Boat to Gaza left the Athens Port at 4:50 p.m. on Friday, expecting to be stopped by Greek authorities in the country’s coastal waters on its way to meet a French ship that had already left port. Shortly after it sailed the US boat was intercepted by …

  • The blockade on Gaza began long before Hamas came to power

    +972 Magazine, June 29, 2011 The second Freedom Flotilla is slated to set sail by the end of the month in an attempt to challenge the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip. The act will call attention to the closure that the United Nations and human rights organizations have decried as a violation of the …

  • Gaza goes mainstream

    Maan News Agency, June 28, 2011 At 33, Megan Horan is one of the younger passengers on the US Boat to Gaza. She admits that she is also a newcomer to the issues surrounding Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Speaking to Maan News Agency, Horan explains that she attended an interfaith conference last summer, …