Freedom #Flotilla2 Activists Start Open-Ended Fast; Additional 200 Passengers Join the Effort

PNN – Palestine News Network – 04.07.11 – 00:39 Athens – PNN – On eve of US Independence Day, 12 US passengers on Freedom Flotilla bound To Gaza started on Sunday an open-ended fast at US embassy in Athens demanding thier government to pressure Greece to free their boat and captain, and allow boat to […]

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Detained in Greece, Freed by Syntagma

July 3, 2011« Lopez to Gaza It is July 3rd, 2011 and we are stopped in Greece. Our ship’s captain is in jail facing felony charges and our American officials here in Athens are intentionally looking the other way. It would appear on the surface that Israel has won their political war against the world’s […]

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Israel fears aid convoys to Gaza by air

[ 03/07/2011 – 09:08 AM ] NAZARETH, (PIC)– Israel has expressed fear of new movements by pro-Palestinians to challenge the Gaza siege by air. Israeli media sources say talks are being held to cope with possible attempts by pro-Palestinians to land and protest at the Israeli Ben Gurion airport or land directly in the Gaza […]

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Israeli Deputy Prime Minister: Flotilla Sabotage Thanks to IDF – by Richard Silverstein

by Richard Silverstein | Sunday Jul 3rd, 2011 | indybay Well, Bogie Yaalon’s actual words quoted in Ynet (Hebrew) were: “Those problems the Flotilla’s having in realizing their plans didn’t just happen. They’re thanks to the work of the political echelon whose focus was on diplomatic political issues, and operational work of the IDF to […]

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Flotilla stays resolved despite setback

  Sun Jul 3, 2011 3:4PM People wave as the US boat sails in the Perama port in southeastern Greece on July 1, 2011. Activists sailing with a Gaza Strip-bound aid vessel are to continue with their trip to the Israeli-blockaded sliver despite facing obstruction in their Greek stopover. The United States-flagged ship The Audacity […]

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Gaza Mobilizes for Freedom Flotilla

PNN – Palestine News Network –  03.07.11 – 23:46 Gaza –PNN/By Joe Catron – An international flotilla of nine ships and hundreds of crew and passengers is a huge undertaking, in Gaza as much as anywhere. Children in Gaza – Photo by Noor Harazeen Mahmoud Elmadhoun knows this better than most. A member of Gaza’s […]

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PETITION | Release Sheikh Raed Saleh

3 July 2011 | Palestine Solidarity Campaign | International Solidarity Movement Sheikh Raed Salah, one of the most prominent campaigners within Israel for Palestinian rights, has been arrested in London. The Sheikh was invited by PSC to speak at the launch of ‘Building Peace and Justice in Jerusalem’ Campaign in Parliament tonight, alongside MPs and […]

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#Flotilla2 Update from the Tahrir – Canadian boat to Gaza! (July 2-3, 2011)

  Palestine Solidarity Demo Information Centre | July 3, 2011 Yesterday, sometime around late morning I walked down to the harbour where the Tahrir, the Canadian boat to Gaza, was and continues to be docked. I got on board and realized very quickly that an official from the the local Port Authority was on board trying to obtain […]

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Welcome To Palestine Initiative Starts; Israeli police Gear-up

PNN – Palestine News Network – 03.07.11 – 22:39 Bethlehem – PNN – Some 40 Palestinian civil society organizations, popular resistance committees, and political factions announce on Sunday the “Welcome to Palestine” initiative July 8-16 where hundreds of Internationals will work with hundreds of Palestinians for Peace. According to a press release by organizers hundreds […]

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Lieberman–Israel was behind the Greek ban on departure of ships, claims Greek government “understands” Israel’s needs

July 3, 2011 by crescentandcross | The Ugly Truth Blog Haaretz Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Sunday that the Gaza flotilla activists, who had accused Israel of purposely sabotaging their ships, are just trying to place the blame for their failure on Israel. “The activists are trying to blame someone for their failure – no […]

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‘The blockade has moved to the ports of Greece’

  Published On Sat Jul 02 2011 – thestar.com The Tahrir, a Canadian boat participating in Freedom Flotilla II to Gaza, is stranded in the port in Agios Nikolaos in Crete. The Greek government has banned flotilla boats from leaving. Jim Rankin/Toronto Star Jim Rankin Staff Reporter ABOARD THE TAHRIR, AGIOS NIKOLAOS—They’re prepared for tear […]

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US captain of Gaza ship held in ‘shocking conditions’

Published today (updated) 03/07/2011 21:01 Israeli left-wing protesters hold signs during a demonstration against the Greek authorities’ decision to ban a Gaza-bound flotilla from setting sail outside the Greek embassy in Tel Aviv. Jumpy activists on the ill-fated mission to Gaza insist the evidence is mounting that Israeli secret services are behind the slew of […]

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Tamimi adamant on hunger strike after illegal arrest despite isolation threat

[ 03/07/2011 – 05:12 PM ] NAZARETH, (PIC)– The director of Hasharon jail has threatened Palestinian prisoner Ahlam Al-Tamimi with solitary confinement if she did not break her hunger strike which she started last Wednesday. Human rights sources said that the problem started last Wednesday when Tamimi went to meet her lawyer and the policewomen […]

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Israel decides to deport Palestinian prisoner and his family to Lebanon Camp after extending detention

[ 03/07/2011 – 04:35 PM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Israel has decided to deport Palestinian prisoner Hammad Muslim Abu Amra to Lebanon thirty months after his prison sentence had ended. The International Committee of the Red Cross has informed Abu Amra, 48, of Israel’s decision to deport him to live with his family in the Nahar al-Barid […]

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Another Hit & Run: Jewish settler runs down Palestinian woman in Nablus

[ 03/07/2011 – 05:37 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– A Jewish settler ran down a Palestinian woman with his vehicle near Hawara southeast of Nablus city in northern West Bank, locals have reported. The woman sustained injuries and fractures and was left in a difficult health condition, the sources said. The woman, in her forties, was hit […]

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