Ghassan Bannoura interviews Audrey Bomse, the legal Advisor of the Free Gaza flotilla, giving PNN the latest updates from the group media office in the Greek part of Cyprus.
(Via Palestine News Network)
The Challenger 1, Free Gaza passenger boat among the Freedom Flotilla, while holding for the other boats to join, close to Cyprus waters, has been contacted via radio by a Cypriot Police Helicopter. This video is recording the converstation. May 28th, 2010
Shane Dillon (Mate on Challenger 1 commented: “It is rather shocking that an EU Country refused to let members of another EU Country’s Parliament into its port on a humanitarian mission.”
Images by Scott Hamann, passenger and Fiachra O Luain, crew on board.
(Via Free Gaza Movement)
Palestinians stop settler attempts to take over a house in East-Jerusalem as Cyprus prevents Free Gaza boats from leaving its port to sail to Gaza, these stories and more in today’s update.
This program was produced by the International Middle East Media Center for June 25, 2009.
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The US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is back visiting the region within the framework of US efforts to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, while Israeli forces continue to close all the Gaza border crossings, as they have done for more than two years. These stories and more in this week’s update.
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Huwaida Arraf of the Free Gaza Movement and co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement discusses the situation in Gaza and the effort of international peace and justice activists to break the Israeli siege. Ranaan Gissin, former advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister, argues that Hamas is the party at fault.
This program was produced by Inside Story for Al Jazeera English for August 24, 2008.
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http://freegaza.org
http://palsolidarity.org
Huwaida Arraf of the Free Gaza Movement and co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement discusses the situation in Gaza and the effort of international peace and justice activists to break the Israeli siege. Ranaan Gissin, former advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister, argues that Hamas is the party at fault.
This program was produced by Inside Story for Al Jazeera English for August 24, 2008.
For more information, visit:
http://english.aljazeera.net
http://freegaza.org
http://palsolidarity.org
The Free Gaza Movement has set sail from Cyprus on their way to Gaza. Reports vary as to whether the Israeli government will allow the two boats, the S.S. Free Gaza and the S.S. Liberty, to pass through the naval blockade and reach the Gazan coast. The boats are sending out video updates periodically during their trip. This report was posted from the deck of the S.S. Liberty (named after the U.S.S. Liberty which was fired upon by Israel during the 1967 war killing scores of American crewman) at 7pm GMT on August 22, 2008.
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