Received from FreeGaza a short time ago in my email. SPREAD IT!
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To all of you on these lists. PLEASE, send this video out to everyone. When you go to the link, there are several paragraphs written about what happened. At the bottom of the page, you will see the video. We are still recovering other video pieces which we will also send out. Ishmahil from RicenPeas and his staff put this one together.
The interception of the ship The Spirit of Humanity’
Called By Emily Thornberry, Labour Member of Parliament for Islington South, London. Emily is the constituency MP for Alex Harrison, one of the British passengers on board the Spirit of Humanity.
Emily will be introducing the debate, raising a number of questions relating to the illegality of Israel’s actions in relation to the Spirit, its passengers and crew and towards the population of the Gaza Strip.
The Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Ivan Lewis) will be responding on behalf of the British Government.
I am not a part of The Free Gaza Movement. I’m just a woman who has been advocating for the Gaza situation for a while and this is the current movement in the forefront. Between VivaPalestina and FGM there is a lot of activity.Both organizations need volunteers. Please see their pages to see how you can help!
I made every one of of the links clickable but WordPress is messing with me and my formatting today. Sorry if they all didn’t hook up but I DID make them all links.
Here’s the email I received last night.
Dear Friends & Supporters,
We in the Free Gaza Movement have been overwhelmed with the good wishes, support, and offers to help that we have received from all over the world ever since our small boat, the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, was high-jacked by the Israeli Navy and its passengers forcibly abducted to Israel. Thank you for your support.
We need your continuing help. If you wish to volunteer with Free Gaza, doing research, writing, or translation, or helping with community organizing in your region, please contact us at volunteer[at]freegaza.org. If you’d like to make a much needed donation, please visit our website at http://www.FreeGaza.org/Donate.
We’ve been asked what our plans are for the future, given that Israeli Occupation Forces physically rammed one of our civilian ships in December, threatened to open fire on another in January and have now confiscated the SPIRIT, arresting and deporting the human rights workers and journalists aboard.
Our answer is that we will return. We have successfully reached Gaza on five separate occasions, and we will do so again. We will never surrender this struggle.
In the midst of one of the most brutal times in history, working for justice is a constant challenge. We are out-gunned. Our opponents in Israel, and elsewhere, have much greater access to funds and resources, much greater influence in the mainstream media, and have repeatedly shown their willingness to use absolutely obscene levels of violence against even unarmed resistance. (more…)
So people don’t misunderstand I am not a part of The Free Gaza Movement. I’m just a woman who is trying to make a difference passing along information to my readers. The more times an article is on the net the more people it will reach. ALL information should be followed up on HTTP://WWW.FREEGAZA.ORG/
Received in email from the GazaFriends mailing list:
Monday 6th July, Heathrow, London Adie Mormech, one of the six British Free Gaza boat passengers and crew deported today from an Israeli jail, says he’s raring to return.
The Free Gaza boat Spirit of Humanity was forcibly boarded by the Israeli navy last Tuesday while trying to sail to Gaza through international and Gazan waters. The boat remains at the Israeli port of Ashdod. “Another boat which tried to reach Gaza a few months ago is still there, so we don’t have much hope of getting ours back” says Mormech, “but the lawyers are working hard on it and we will be fundraising for new ones.” (more…)
Received from the “GazaFriends” Mailing list. If you haven’t subscribed, please do by going to the FreeGaza.org site and clicking on the mailing lists graphic on the left.
Many of you have been asking us what has happened to the kidnapped passengers and our boat, The SPIRIT OF HUMANITY. Here then is our current update.
All 21 passengers have now left. Huwaida and Lubna were freed right away, because they hold Israeli citizenship.
Many passengers did not get all of their belongings back, many computers were stolen, some that were returned had their hard drives completely erased. Many of the pieces of camera equipment were not given back as well, and, of course, none of the tapes of the boarding, roughing up or incarceration of the 21 people who have been returned. (more…)
Monday, 06 July 2009 07:29 Written by Free Gaza Movement
‘Freegaza21′ deportees to arrive at Heathrow 13.30 hours Monday 6th July’
Press conference: 16.00 (4 p.m.) at the Renaissance Hotel, Bath Rd. Heathrow TW6 2AQ (opposite the Marriot)
On Sunday 5th July the six British crew and passengers of the Spirit of Humanity were moved to detention cells at Ben Gurion Airport, following a court hearing at which the orders for their deportation from Israel were made. The captain of the Spirit, Denis Healey, and the other five British human rights activists, are expected to be put on El Al flight LY315, from Tel Aviv, tomorrow, Monday 6th July 2009, due to arrive at Terminal One, Heathrow at 13.30 p.m.
Friends and family of the six are traveling to Heathrow airport to welcome them and to hear for the first time direct accounts of the forcible boarding by Israel of the Spirit of Humanity, which carried aid and reconstruction supplies, as it traveled from Cyprus towards the port of Gaza on June 30th 2009. (more…)
This is the first of 5 short episodes showing the actual situation of Palestine. The purpose of those videos is to arise international awareness about the prison like closure of Palestine. Palestine need the internationals action and help to break the inhuman and illegal siege imposed by Israel.
Please help us divulgating. thank you
Edited by the Free Gaza Movement are available in ENGLISH ITALIAN FRENCH and SPANISH. PLEASE SEE PLAYLISTS TITLED IN THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE.
Pictures from MachsomWatch, an organization of peace activist Israeli women, that every morning and afternoon, go out to some 30 checkpoints within the West Bank and on the seam-line between Israel and Palestine, to monitor and document IDF and Border Police conduct, and safeguard Palestinian human rights.
The shoot inside the video has been filmed by Daphne Banai and Milat Shamir at the Huwwara checkpoint on 10thSeptember 2007 – Machsom Watch activists observed that a particular checkpoint commander has a habit of beating up Palestinians in the detention cell. After one of the activists insisted on filming the checkpoint commander as he was entering the detention cell, the soldiers turned their violence towards her.
Images by : Dalia Kaveh, Elat Benda, Judith Spitzer, Magdalena Hefetz, Meged Gozani, Merav Amir, Micky Fisher, Mika Ginsburg, Naama Morag, Nava Elyashar, Neta Efroni, Noa Perelson, Noam Dan, Nurit Wagner, Ofra Ben Porat, Raya Zenter, Ruti Tuval, Shula Bar, Tamar Fleishman, Yudit Levine.
Third episode : In West Bank checkpoints manned by Israeli military : why? In a few slides reasons why are shown. Its not true that there’s nothing to do about it and peace is not possible there. There are identified reasons that stand in the way of peace.
Pictures from International Solidarity Movement (ISM), NadPLO, Free Gaza Movement, MachsomWatch
The film in the video : Arson in the Fields of Burin Village by Machsom Watch
Filmed by Yehudith Levin.
Edited by Hadass Shuve
This 4th episode shwos the daily violence and sufferings imposed to Palestinian people by Israel. A continuous harm that we are asking to stop soon.
Vídeo and phots by ISM, International Solidarity Movement, a non violent group of activists defending Palestinian human rights and acting as human shields to protect Palestinian farmers and fishermen at work.
Images by MachsomWatch and Sameh A. Habeeb
We are NOT the Story, Its Not Just Our 21 Kidnapped Passengers.
Palestine, the world’s largest openair prison- episode 5
The kidnapping of 21 international human rights workers attempting to deliver needed aid to a besieged people is an outrage, but it is hardly an isolated one.
Since its founding in 1948 the State of Israel has regularly kidnapped and tortured Palestinians, throwing them into forgotten prisons where they can languish for years. Today, over 11,000 Palestinian political prisoners without benefit of due process, some never even charged – men, women, and children endure torture and isolation in Israeli jails, outdoor prison camps, and secret black sites. They come from all walks of life: doctors, journalists, parliamentarians, workers, resistance fighters, homemakers, students and others. They are our sisters and brothers.
From the first night, the Free Gaza 21 have been busy trying to get news out of the prison about the illegality of Israel’s actions in relation to themselves and the other inmates inside Ramle Prison who have no voice.
Palestine, the world’s largest open air prison are 5 episodes videos showing the actual prison like situation of Palestine. Edited by the Free Gaza Movement are available in ENGLISH ITALIAN FRENCH and SPANISH. PLEASE SEE PLAYLISTS TITLED IN THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE.
So sorry I got this out late. Please support VivaPalestina as they continue to break the siege in their own awesome way! – Dee
Viva Palestina Email Alert 3rd July 2009 Viva Palestina to lead largest US convoy into Gaza
British anti-war MP George Galloway is to fly out on Saturday 4th July, American independence day, from JFK airport in New York with the first of a group of hundreds of US citizens who are to form the largest ever aid convoy to head into Gaza.
They will be heading off a month to the day from President Obama’s signal speech in Cairo promising a new, more egalitarian US engagement with the Muslim world and a change in policy over Palestine and the Middle East from the disastrous eight years of the Bush administration.
For six weeks the Viva Palestina campaign,launched by Galloway with an earlier convoy in March from Britain in March, has been building support for the mission across the US. (more…)
I am NOT a member of the FGM. I post these here to get the information out and to support the Palestinians as best as I’m able to do so from so far away. Please use the contact information below to reach members of the FGM – Dee
“The landing of two wooden boats carrying human rights activists in Gaza is an important symbolic victory … Above all, what is being tested is whether the imaginative engagement of dedicated private citizens can influence the struggle of a beleaguered people for basic human rights, and whether their courage and commitment can awaken the conscience of humanity to an unfolding tragedy.”
- Richard Falk, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the OPT (August 2008)
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Dear Friends,
On Tuesday, July 30 the Israeli Navy forcibly boarded our boat, SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, confiscating the ship and abducting 21 human rights workers and journalists, including Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire and former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. Israel’s violent actions temporarily prevented us from delivering much needed humanitarian and reconstruction supplies to besieged Gaza.
All of us in the Free Gaza Movement have been overwhelmed with the support and well-wishes we have received in these past days. All of us are deeply grateful for the thousands of phone calls and emails that you have sent, the demonstrations that have been organized around the world, and the pressure you have brought to bear on Israel and your own governments to free the ‘Free Gaza 21.’ Thank you.
We began this campaign three years ago on hope alone. Many thought it couldn’t be done. We did it. We broke through the Israeli siege. But we need your help to keep going. To date, the Free Gaza Movement has organized eight voyages to Palestine, successfully arriving in Gaza Port five times. We have brought dozens of human rights workers, journalists, parliamentarians, and others to Gaza, as well as tons of desperately needed medical and humanitarian supplies. Free Gaza boats are the first international ships to sail to the Gaza Strip since 1967.(more…)
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