UPDATED: ‘Handala’ Freedom Flotilla Aid Boat ABDUCTED by Israeli Forces

The Israeli occupation forces attacked the “Handala” ship, which was carrying international activists and desperately needed humanitarian aid, on its…

As the boat ‘Madleen’ approaches the Gaza Strip with 12 human rights activists and several tons of humanitarian aid, the…

A group of European activists sailing to Gaza to bring humanitarian aid to the starving Palestinian population encountered a sinking…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff NOTE: The Gaza Health Ministry’s daily casualty figures are based on the number of dead…

A humanitarian vessel affiliated with the “Freedom Flotilla” heading to deliver humanitarian supplies to Gaza was attacked by an Israeli…

Ramzy Baroud, Mint Press News What is Gaza to us but an Israeli missile, a rudimentary rocket, a demolished home, an…

Chairman of the International Committee for Breaking the Siege of Gaza, and a founding member of Freedom Flotilla Coalition, Zaher…

Human rights activist John Turnbull describes how Israel’s navy hijacked a peaceful vessel in international waters, and kidnapped its passengers…

Joe Meadors was selected as the delegate from the United States on the final 1,000-mile voyage to Gaza with the…

Freedom Flotilla was intercepted by the Israeli navy on Sunday afternoon, approximately 70 miles from the Gaza Strip shore. Israeli…

Zohar Regev Chamberlain says the injustice she witnessed as a child, in Israel, moved her to defend Palestinian human rights.…

Freedom Flotilla ships are now at their last leg of the journey, heading toward the Gaza Strip, after they set…

A picture showing several of the ships taking part in the Palestine Freedom Flotilla campaign as they near a port…

Yonatan Shapira says Israel’s ‘democracy’ is, in fact, an apartheid state led by fascist Jewish supremacists. TRNN video & transcript:…

This interview was conducted with a crew member of one of the Freedom Flotilla ships sailing off from Sweden to…

Two of the boats participating in the 2018 ‘Freedom Flotilla’ to break the Israeli blockade on Gaza left Spain Friday…

Human rights activist Claude Leostic accuses Emmanuel Macron’s government of political harassment. TRNN video & transcript: DIMITRI LASCARIS: This is Dimitri…

On Tuesday, 15 May, three Swedish boats met in the Danish Straits near Copenhagen, to start a voyage that would take them…

The National Higher Committee for the Great Return March (NHCGRM) announced, yesterday, that a flotilla of ships is going to depart the…

from Freedom Flotilla Coalition: Just before noon local time (May 23,2018), the Freedom Flotilla vessel Al Awda (The Return) was boarded by…

Activists Yudit Ilany and Heather Milton-Lightening explain why Israel’s blockade of Gaza must end. TRNN video & transcript: DIMITRI LASCARIS: This…

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) has chosen March 8th, which marks International Women’s Day (IWD), to announce the launch of…

On June 26th 2015, four boats of the 2015 the Freedom Flotilla III set sail toward Gaza to try to…

This summer, Swedish seaman Joel Opperdoes, 32, is not piloting cargo ships in the Baltic Sea.This summer, Swedish seaman Joel…

Representatives of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) and partner organizations traveled to Tunis last week, where they participated in the…

Former Tunisian President Marzouki will participate in the initiative to break the siege on the Palestinian enclave. It’s the third…

Following is a statement by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition regarding the April 29th attack on Gaza’s Ark. Statement from the…

The Spanish ship, the Gernika, part of the Second Freedom Flotilla, that has remained at Port Kolymvari for two weeks,…

After weeks of threats by the Israeli and US governments, sabotage by unknown parties, and a public relations campaign by…

A Jordanian union leader told Agence France Presse that a boat has been purchased for $800,000 in Greece to carry…

With the US boat escorted by military commandos back to a Greek port, the Canadian boat boarded by Greek police,…

Israeli sources reported that the army, a number of Israeli security officials and politicians, conducted on Tuesday a drill simulating…

As the ‘Freedom Flotilla’ of aid ships to Gaza prepares to depart this week, a video published on Youtube accusing…

The first of the Freedom Flotilla 2 ships have set sail for the rendezvous point in the Mediterranean Sea, where…

A ship known as the ‘Juliano’ (after assassinated activist Juliano Mer-Khamis) was found sabotaged on Monday evening, as it was…

Monday June 27, Benjamin Netanyahu reversed the announcement made by the GPO that would have barred foreign journalists on board…

Israeli military sources claimed that international activists participating in the Freedom Flotilla 2, heading to Gaza to deliver the much…

In another escalation against the Freedom Flotilla, heading to deliver humanitarian supplies to the Gaza Strip, the Israeli government stated…

While Israeli and US officials have worked to dissuade the Freedom Flotilla from setting sail to Gaza next week, the…

Jewish activists from the US, outraged at the siege of Gaza carried out by the Israeli government in their name,…

The Prime Minister of Malaysia voiced his support for the upcoming ‘Freedom Flotilla’ of aid ships and 500 supporters from…

Head of the Israeli Navy, Eliezer Marom, voiced on Sunday a strict warning targeting the organizers of the Freedom Flotilla,…

Celebrated American author and poet Alice Walker will later this month be among 38 people aboard the Audacity of Hope,…

The Turkish Organisation IHH has said that its ship, the Mavi Marmara, will not be taking part in the upcoming…

The organizers of the “Freedom Flotilla 2” have said they intend to sail irrespective of Turkish organization IHH’s participation, according…

The Turkish organisation IHH has said it is reconsidering its participation in the planned “Freedom Flotilla 2” set to sail…

Israeli media sources reported Wednesday that the Israeli army and the navy are intensifying their training and preparing plans to…

Israel has confirmed it will block the next “Freedom Flotilla” seeking to break the maritime siege of Gaza. The flotilla…

United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, called on Middle Eastern countries to prevent the new Freedom Flotilla from heading to…

The international Gaza aid flotilla that was at the centre of an international Israeli diplomatic crisis last year is due…

The Turkish Humanitarian Foundation (IHH) that led the Freedom Flotilla that was attacked by the Israeli army in international waters…

Freedom Flotilla 2 solidarity ships will be sailing to the Gaza Strip next spring in order to challenge Israel’s siege…

After a number of Turkish requests for a return of the ships used in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, Israel has…

Germany’s interior minister says that any group not recognizing Israel will lose their right to exist politically in the country.The…

The Freedom Flotilla 2 carrying humanitarian supplies to the besieged Gaza Strip will be sailing to Gaza in mid-July 2010.…

Yasser Qashlaq, the head of the Free Palestine Movement, announced Thursday that Freedom Flotilla 2 could include up to 50…

United States President, Barack Obama, attempted to justify Israel’s deadly attack on the Freedom Flotilla, described it as tragic, yet…

Arab Member of Knesset Hanin Zo’by was given a security detail after she received several death threats for her participation…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced that, in appreciation of their efforts, all those who were aboard the Freedom Flotilla or…

The European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza (ECESG) reported that it has enough donations to prepare the first…

Hundreds of protests were organized Monday calling on the world’s governments to hold Israel accountable for its unprovoked attack on…

19 activists were killed in the attack and dozens were wounded, Israeli news agencies reported.Among the wounded was Sheikh Raed…

In what activists are calling a ‘massacre on the high seas,’ Israeli commandos assaulted a ship sailing with the humanitarian…

The Israeli Navy has scrambled all communications with the Freedom Flotilla, a convoy carrying hundreds of peace activists and tons…

The Freedom Flotilla started gathering in international waters near the coast in Cyprus in preparation to sail to the Gaza…

Israeli Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, stated Friday afternoon that the solidarity ships, filled with medical and humanitarian supplies, and heading…

The Turkish government officially demanded that Israel not intercept or obstruct the Freedom Flotilla, a convoy of ships attempting to…

The Ship to Gaza and Freedom Flotilla, currently on its way to Gaza across Mediterranean, are carrying 11 Swedish citizens.…

Hamas spokesman Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri stated that he is sure the Freedom Flotilla, a convoy of ships carrying humanitarian…

Residents of the Gaza Strip and several humanitarian institutions are preparing to receive the “The Freedom Flotilla,” the largest convoy…

Israeli sources reported that two Israeli boats will be sailing Saturday from northern Israel in order to counter the Freedom…

Another humanitarian aid flotilla of ships trying to bring desperately-needed humanitarian aid to the starving population of Gaza has been…

In the early hours of Wednesday, October 1, Israeli naval forces launched a coordinated assault on the Global Sumud Flotilla—a…

The “Global Sumud Flotilla” aiming to break Israel’s deadly blockade of Gaza to delivered urgently needed humanitarian supplies, announced on…

Spain and Italy have dispatched naval vessels to protect the Global Sumud Flotilla, a civilian convoy delivering humanitarian aid to…

Yasemin Acar describes the drone that hovered over the Sumud Freedom Flotilla at midnight (Tuesday night/Wednesday morning) as a form…

In a powerful show of global solidarity, organizers of the Global Sumud Flotilla announced the launch of a civilian-led mission…

Freedom Flotilla: FFC’s Handala begins its journey to Gaza to break the blockade, For the Children of Gaza FOR IMMEDIATE…

The Israeli army Saturday morning said that it had taken over a European ship, the Swedish-flagged “Freedom,” captained by John…

The Israeli navy has intercepted a Norwegian-flagged ship, with activists on board, as it was approaching the shores of the…

Israel on, Wednesday, released seven passengers of a humanitarian flotilla that was attempting to break the decade-long blockade of Gaza.…

The Women’s Boat to Gaza, a campaign of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition conducted its meetings, over the past weekend, to…

Four people, including three Americans, have filed a civil suit against the state of Israel, seeking compensatory damages for injuries…

Dror Feiler, an Israeli-born Swedish activist who renounced his Israel Citizenship more than 30 years ago, stated that somebody with…

One of the organizers of Freedom Flotilla III trip, Dror Feiler, said on Wednesday that Marianne of Gothenburg is about…

The Knesset is currently holding a ‘heated debate’ on whether or not to rescind the diplomatic immunity of MK Basel…

Activists in Gaza City on Sunday marked five years since Israel’s deadly attack on the first Freedom Flotilla in 2010,…

Canadian, European, and Palestinian activists plan to launch a flotilla – dubbed “Gaza’s Ark” – from Gaza to Europe carrying…

Guest: Jihan Hafiz, Democracy Now! correspondent who has just returned to the U.S. after being arrested, detained and deported by…

Twenty-one passengers of the two aid ships remain in Israeli prison; three days after Israeli forces intercepted the ships in…

Hundreds of people gathered in Gaza City Thursday to protest the Israeli government’s announcement that it will stop the two…

The Israeli Ministerial Cabinet discussed on Wednesday the current crisis with Turkey that resulted after Israel attacked the Turkish solidarity…

Palestinian-Israeli Member of the Knesset (Parliament) Hanin Zoabi has been stripped of her rights as a Parliamentarian, and will be…

The one ship from the Freedom Flotilla that managed to elude a blockade by the Greek government is nearing the…

Olivier De Schutter, Special United Nations Rapporteur on the Right to Food, voiced strong criticism of a highly anticipated UN…

A group of Spanish activists have occupied their country’s embassy in Greece, calling for the release of an aid flotilla…

A group of Israeli human rights organisations have signed a letter supporting the Freedom Flotilla 2 and calling on the…

Activists set to sail to Gaza as part of the Freedom Flotilla 2 movement, but prevented by the Greek navy…

After having been delayed a week from the original departure date, facing sabotage of two boats and a complaint against…

According to activists on the Freedom Flotilla of aid ships to Gaza, a second boat has been severely damaged by…