ISMer loses eye on West Bank flotilla demo

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 21 year old American activist loses eye after being shot in face with tear gas canister 31 May 2010: An American solidarity activist was shot in the face with a tear gas canister during a demonstration in Qalandiya, today. Emily Henochowicz is currently in Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem undergoing surgery to remove [...]

2pm: UK demos and update

Demos I’m aware of today: London 2pm Downing Street, York 2pm Samson Square, Manchester 5pm outside the BBC,Bolton 5pm Victoria Square, Preston 5.45pm Lune St, Hebden Bridge 5.30pm traffic lights See more or register them here, also email protests AT freegaza.org Regularly updated Guardian Coverage here Interview with Adam Shapiro on Democracy Now Still cannot [...]

Live footage from 4am

…this is what I was watching as it happened during the night, it hasn’t appeared to this extent much on the web, there is some Arabic and Turkish but it is interspersed with English, and finishes with orders in Hebrew from the boarding soldiers. “Despite the white flag being raised, the Israeli army is still [...]

16 dead, don’t know where injured taken

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CALL FROM GAZA FOR GLOBAL RESPONSE TO KILLINGS ON THE FREEDOM FLOTILLA

PRESS RELEASE GAZA, PALESTINE 31.MAY.2010 CALL FROM GAZA FOR GLOBAL RESPONSE TO KILLINGS ON THE FREEDOM FLOTILLA We, Gaza based Palestinian Civil Society Organizations and International activists, call on the international community and civil society to pressure their governments and Israel to cease the abductions and killings in Israel’s attacks against the Gaza Freedom Flotilla [...]

May 31: 4.15am – Israeli firing on peace ships

My god, Israel has lost it. There is live streaming at http://www.livestream.com/insaniyardim of Israel firing on the IHH Turkish charity ship with hundreds of volunteers. The twitter message is that they’re being boarded by commandos from helicopters who are taking over the ship, that 2 passengers are dead and 30 are wounded. THEY ARE UNARMED [...]

May 29: Flotilla sailing for Gaza right this minute!

…and I’ve gone so far as to sign up to FreeGaza on Twitter so that I can get the up-to-the-minute reports of what’s happening at sea. They need our protection desperately as Israel has threatened to stop them and has been practising navy maneuvers. This flotilla carries 10,000 tonnes of aid, and 800 activists and [...]

May 21: Remember our friends in Faraheen?

Above, April: Israel destroys the crops…a month before they come back to kill the animals. Readers of my blog will remember getting to know Jaber and Leila and their six kids, just one farming family who dodge bullets to try to grow food for Gaza, resulting in a broken foot for Leila last year. You’ll [...]

Look how far we’ve come!

Last week, the Irish FreeGaza boat was the first to set sail towards the Mediterranean to meet the rest of the flotilla. Here’s the letter Jenny (who first sent cargo by the FreeGaza boat Dignity when she shipped her warmest jacket over from Cyprus to keep me cosy through Gaza winter and war 08/09) had [...]