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  • EXCLUSIVE : New Video Smuggled Out from Mavi Marmara of Israel’s Deadly Assault on Gaza Aid Flotilla
    11 June 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    EXCLUSIVE: New Video Smuggled Out from Mavi Marmara of Israel’s Deadly Assault on Gaza Aid Flotilla Culturesofresistance
    In a Democracy Now! exclusive, we bring you a sneak preview of previously unseen raw footage from the Mavi Marmara that will be formally released at a press conference at the United Nations later in the day. The footage shows the mood and the activities onboard the Mavi Marmara in the time leading up to the attack, and the immediate reaction of the passengers during the (…)

  • Galloway announces new Gaza aid convoy
    7 June 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    EAST End politician George Galloway told protestors campaigning against the Gaza blockade that a new convoy will head off there.
    The former Bethnal Green and Bow MP told a gathering of protesters outside the Israeli embassy in Kensington this weekend that: "a land convoy will leave Britain shortly after the end of Ramadan in September and travel through Europe, down through Turkey and Syria into Jordan. We will ask the Egyptian government then to ensure passage from the port of Aqaba to (…)

  • Palestine: The world cries out for justice
    7 June 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Hundreds of thousands of protesters marched through cities around the world on Saturday over the Israeli killing of nine Turkish activists last week aboard an aid ship bound for Gaza.
    Rallies took place in London, Sheffield, Edinburgh and other British cities as part of an international day of action which also saw demonstrations in Turkey, Lebanon, Spain, Ireland and Gaza itself.
    In London, 20,000 protesters marched from Downing Street to the Israeli embassy to express outrage at the (…)

  • Gaza flotilla activists were shot in head at close range
    7 June 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Exclusive: Nine Turkish men on board Mavi Marmara were shot a total of 30 times, autopsy results reveal
    Israel was tonight under pressure to allow an independent inquiry into its assault on the Gaza aid flotilla after autopsy results on the bodies of those killed, obtained by the Guardian, revealed they were peppered with 9mm bullets, many fired at close range.
    Nine Turkish men on board the Mavi Marmara were shot a total of 30 times and five were killed by gunshot wounds to the head, (…)

  • Jewish boat to Gaza soon sailing
    7 June 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Jewish Boat to Gaza is sailing soon In a harbour in the Mediterranean a small vessel is waiting for a special mission. She will be sailing to Gaza during the second half of July. In order to avoid sabotage, the exact date and name of the port of departure will be announced only shortly before her launch. « Our purpose is to call an end to the siege of Gaza, to this illegal collective punishment of the whole civilian population.
    Our boat is small, so our donations can only be symbolic: we (…)

  • Our deepest sympathies
    7 June 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Bianca Shaana
    In the dark, early hours of May 31, Israel launched a commando and navy attack on 6 unarmed civilian ships carrying humanitarian aid in the international waters of the Mediterranean sea, opening fire before they landed. These highly trained, professional soldiers killed and wounded tens of civilians, many of whom were on the Mavi Marmara, a boat owned by the Turkish charity, IHH (The Foundation for Human Rights & Freedoms & Humanitarian Relief).
    We in the Free (…)

  • Why the World must apply comprehensive Sanctions & Boycotts against Apartheid Israel & its supporters
    6 June 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Gaza Aid Flotilla Massacre underscores why the World must urgently apply comprehensive Sanctions and Boycotts against Apartheid Israel and its supporters to protect Humanity from the genocidal, nuclear terrorist state of Apartheid Israel - a race-based state that continues to violate International Law, International Human Rights Conventions, the UN General Assembly, the UN Security Council, the International Court of Justice, and indeed what Catholic theologians call the Natural Law. (…)

  • Israel Planned Killing of Aid Flotilla Activists
    6 June 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

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    The Foundation for Human Rights, Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (IHH), organizer of the aid flotilla attacked by Israel, presented new evidence on Friday that prove that Israeli intelligence services had chosen their targets prior to the assault.
    Israeli Attack to Humanitarian Caravan Condenmed The IHH president, Bülent Yildirim, accused Israel of taking advantage of the attack against the ship to carry out selective killing of members of the (…)

  • Israel Faces Deepening Tensions With Turkey Over Raid, and Bond With U.S. Frays
    5 June 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON — Tensions deepened between Turkey and Israel on Friday, and a new fissure threatened to open between the United States and Israel, as the three countries continued to deal with the fallout from Israel’s deadly raid on a humanitarian aid flotilla off Gaza.
    A senior Turkish diplomat warned that his country might sever diplomatic relations with Israel unless its government apologized for the attack, in which nine Turkish citizens were killed; consented to an international (…)

  • ISRAELI MILITARY FORCIBLY STOPS AID BOAT TO GAZA - AGAIN
    5 June 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    (Off the Gaza coast, 5 JUNE) - Just before 9am this morning, the Israeli military forcibly siezed the Irish-owned humanitarian relief ship, the MV Rachel Corrie, from delivering over 1000 tons of medical and construction supplies to besieged Gaza. For the second time in less then a week, Israeli naval commandos stormed an unarmed aid ship, brutally taking its passengers hostage and towing the ship toward Ashdod port in Southern Israel. It is not yet known whether any of the Rachel Corrie’s (…)