A boat carrying humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza has been captured by the Israeli navy, and its passengers detained.  The passengers include former US Green Party Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney, and Irish Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire.   IMEMC Reporter Jenka Soderberg spoke with Jenny Graham of the Free Gaza movement in Cyprus. Read More

The attached audio recordings are two interviews with friends of Tristan Anderson, a non-violent activist and independent journalist who was injured on 3/13 by Israeli forces who fired a high velocity tear gas canister at his head. Read More

Professor Richard Falk is the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. He is world-renowned as an authority on international law and has authored and co-authored 20 books. Recently, Professor Falk has focused much of his attention on the Israeli massacres in Gaza, alleging that Israel's actions are constitutive of both violations of the laws of war and indicative of crimes against humanity. This is the transcript of a phone interview with him from his home in Santa Barbara, California.

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A Palestinian village that is central to the non-violent movement in Palestine has come under attack by Israeli forces. Read More

Portland Oregon Public Access program featuring guests speaking to the recent Israeli massacres of Gaza civilians. Program also features video footage of Portland demonstrations urging peace in Gaza. Guests are Saed Bannoura, a Palestinian with International Middle East Media Center, (www.imemc.org) and William Seaman, with Portland Peaceful Response Coalition ( www.pprc-news.org ) and American Jews for a Just Peace (www.ajjp.org.) The interview was conducted on January 2, 2008.   Read More

This is an interview with Dr. Salah Haj Yahia, of Physicians for Human Rights – Israel, on the situation in Gaza and the hardships the residents, especially the patients are facing due to the ongoing and unjust Israeli siege. This interview was conducted by Saqer Abu Sa’look, Naba’ News Agency, and was translated by Saed Bannoura of the IMEMC. Read More

Joe Fallisi: Dear Greta, dear Mary, you’re two of the founders and deeply involved organizers of Free Gaza. In my opinion, it is one of the few new world realities in the fight for human rights. It truly was and is able to make something concrete, new, positive and useful change - as well as a radical change. A change that otherwise very probably wouldn’t even happen. The initiative comes from civil society and has nothing to do with the old politics. How, where and when did it start, and what did you personally do and are continuing to do within this movement? Read More

The Electronic Intifada's correspondent in Gaza, Rami Almeghari, sat down with UNRWA Chief of Operations in the Gaza Strip, John Ging, to discuss how the siege, and the latest closures are affecting UNRWA and the civilian population in Gaza. UNRWA is the UN agency responsible for providing aid to millions of Palestinian refugees. On 4 November, Israel sent tanks into the Gaza Strip and carried out attacks which killed six Palestinians, breaking a ceasefire that had generally held since June. Palestinian militias retaliated by firing rockets at Israel. Since then Israel has tightened its blockade of the Gaza Strip.
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Is the Bush administration making quiet overtures towards Hamas? What are the prospects for reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah, and what are Hamas' views on peace with Israel? Does the Islamist movement support the one-state solution and where does it look to for political role models? Dr. Ahmed Yousef, senior advisor to Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, the leader of the Hamas government in Gaza, recently spoke to The Electronic Intifada's Gaza Strip correspondent Rami Almeghari about these and other issues.

In June 2007 Hamas took full control of the Gaza Strip, ousting American-trained militias loyal to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Since then, the territory, just twice the size of Washington, DC, has been under a punishing Israeli blockade forcing the vast majority of its 1.5 million residents to depend on UN food handouts. Hamas, elected to govern the West Bank and Gaza Strip with a landslide majority in January 2006, has been boycotted by Western powers and declared a "terrorist organization" by the United States. While Haniya's government is confined to the Gaza Strip, the US recognizes only the unelected Ramallah-based government appointed by Abbas in the West Bank. Since June, Hamas and Israel have observed an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire that ended months of violence in which hundreds of Palestinian civilians and several Israelis were killed.

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In an interview with The Electronic Intifada, Jeff Halper, the Israeli-American director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, discussed the ongoing Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip and the Free Gaza Movement (FGM). Halper was one of 46 members to take part in FGM's action to challenge Israel 14-month siege on Gaza.
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On Saturday the 9th of August we headed out to upper Nablus where we'd arranged an interview with the ex-mayor of the city, Bassam Shaka. Read More