The Huffington Post, July 26, 2011 Maan News Agency, July 28, 2011 The flotilla was intended to challenge the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, a closure that has been decried as a violation of international law. While Israel prevented the boats from reaching the Gaza Strip, the initiative was successful in bringing media attention …
+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 …
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, …
Maan News Agency, June 25, 2011 Organizers of the second Freedom Flotilla say that an administrative complaint has been filed against the US Boat to Gaza, the Audacity of Hope, claiming that the vessel is not seaworthy. This could delay or altogether prevent the ship from leaving Athens. The harbor master received notification of the …
Maan News Agency, June 25, 2011 Organizers of the US Boat to Gaza say that the Greek government has come under intense pressure from Israel. The Israeli government is allegedly using trade agreements with the Greeks as leverage. Spokesman of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs Gregory Delavekouras confirmed that Israel had contacted Greece about …
Maan News Agency, June 25, 2011 Non-violence training and anti-sabotage measures are in place for the volunteers, activists and media arriving in Athens as the Freedom Flotilla II prepares to sail to Gaza. In hopes of preventing sabotage which organizers said docked two boats from the 2010 flotilla, the ships for the June voyage have …
The Huffington Post, July 1, 2010 Maan News Agency, July 2, 2010 Fidaa Talal Hijjy, a resident of the Gaza Strip, was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease in 2007–the same year Israel’s blockade of Gaza began. As her health deteriorated, so did Gaza’s medical system. Drugs are in short supply. Hospitals lack necessary equipment. And because …
Maan News Agency, June 1, 2010 The Huffington Post, June 1, 2010 Some 2,000 demonstrators gathered outside Israel’s Ministry of Defense late Monday to protest the military’s violent raid on an aid flotilla that attempted to break the country’s years-long siege on the Gaza Strip. Approximately 100 Tel Aviv and border police officers were present …
The Huffington Post, May 29, 2010 Destroyed houses, tent camps, clouds of white phosphorous–these were just a few of the images of Gaza included in the video that accompanied Amnesty International’s annual human rights report, which was released yesterday. The report covers 2009, including Operation Cast Lead, which began in late December 2008 and ended …
The Electronic Intifada, October 29, 2009 Recently, Israel announced that it would import palm fronds from the Gaza Strip for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. The move came at the behest of Minister of Religious Services, Yakov Margi, who feared that a shortage of palm fronds and a local monopoly on the item would send …