Freedom Flotilla III en route to Gaza; military plane spotted overhead
On June 26th 2015, four boats of the 2015 the Freedom Flotilla III set sail toward Gaza to try to…
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On June 26th 2015, four boats of the 2015 the Freedom Flotilla III set sail toward Gaza to try to…
Dror Feiler, an Israeli-born Swedish activist who renounced his Israel Citizenship more than 30 years ago, stated that somebody with…
This summer, Swedish seaman Joel Opperdoes, 32, is not piloting cargo ships in the Baltic Sea.This summer, Swedish seaman Joel…
Activists in Gaza City on Sunday marked five years since Israel’s deadly attack on the first Freedom Flotilla in 2010,…
Marianne of Gothenburg left her home port at 7 pm on the 10 of May. The trawler, which has been…
The Italian parliament has again postponed the vote on a non-binding bill calling for the official recognition of a Palestinian…
The Italian Parliament is preparing to discuss the recognition of the State of Palestine with a series of motions which…
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Late on Thursday, the Belgian parliament approved a resolution calling for official recognition of Palestine as a state.Belgium is the…
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Dr. Jamal Nazzal, the spokesman for the Palestinian Fateh Movement and member of its Revolutionary Council, arrived in the Danish…
According to Palestinian Ambassador to Italy, Mai Al-Kaila, the Italian Parliament recently held a preliminary meeting to discuss recognizing a…
Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström said that Israel is over-reacting to the recognition of Palestine and that Israel’s rhetoric directed…
In front of a backdrop of the Palestinian flag and a keffiyeh, the Palestinian football team spoke of the challenges…
The lower house of the Irish Parliament has approved a nonbinding resolution calling on the government to officially recognize the…
The European Union, Wednesday, made a contribution of approximately €23.5 million to the November payment of salaries and pensions for…
In a 339 to 151 vote, French Lawmakers of the Lower House of Parliament voted in support of a symbolic…
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announced, today, a U.S. contribution of $100 million in budget support for…
The ruling party in France has called on French authorities to officially recognize the Palestinian statehood, that they might reach…
… this is the way the world ends; not with a bang but a whimper. From “The Hollow Men” by…
Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, on Sunday, urged the international community and, in particular, the European Union (EU), to speed-up…
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Sweden’s Foreign Minister, Margot Wallstrom, today, said she would be ‘happy’ to send Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman some IKEA…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed the Swedish decision to recognize Palestine as a State, and said this decision in coherent…
International observers witness the impact of “Operation Protective Edge” and the closure of Gaza on human rights defenders’ work inside…
After the Swedish government officially recognized the state of Palestine Thursday, Israeli officials announced the withdrawal of the Israeli ambassador…
Yesterday, Israeli forces demolished a total of seven structures in the Bedouin village of Um al Kheir. 28th October |…
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The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) welcomed the Swedish recognition of Palestine as a state, in coherence with International Law and…
US State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki stated, Friday, that international recognition of a Palestinian State is “premature,’ alleging the United…
Major Israeli food exporters are facing an unprecedented wave of cancelations in orders from Europe as a result of Israel’s…
International solidarity activists who have been helping in Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s largest, have announced that the hospital has received a…
‘As international and criminal law scholars, human rights defenders, legal experts and individuals who firmly believe in the rule of…
At 19:00 Beit Hanoun Hospital was hit by an Israeli tank shell. Inside the hospital are 61 medical staff, three…
Hospital staff and international activists, from the U.S., Sweden, and the UK, attempted to travel to the recently bombed el-Wafa…
Israel’s army fired four ‘warning’ missiles at the roof of El-Wafa rehabilitation hospital in Gaza City, Gaza. International volunteers now…
France has advised its citizens and companies against doing business with Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, according to…
Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, on Thursday, called upon the international community to exert serious and considerable pressure on Israel…
Israeli settlers uprooted at dawn, today [Sunday, February 9, 2013], 800 olive seedlings in Singel village, north of Ramallah.Singel Mayor…
Alternative Information Center (AIC) – Eyad Sarraj, a Gazan psychiatrist and leading Palestinian human rights defender, has died at the…
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The “Miles Of Smile” solidarity aid convoy made it into the coastal region, on Thursday [November 21, 2013], after crossing…
The British Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, has reported that Israel sold, over the past five years, military and…
Palestinian farming organisations and campaigners in more than 40 European cities held demonstrations Tuesday calling for governments and supermarkets to…
The Gaza Strip has often been called an “open air prison” in light of the illegal closure imposed on it…
More than 300 farmers and activists in Gaza march towards the buffer zone near the border with Israel to demand…
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As the vote approaches, the Palestinians seem to be garnering all needed support to be recognized as a nonmember observer…
United Nations Special Rapporteur on humanitarian affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories, called for boycotting all firms that benefit from…
Israeli officials reported that the Israeli Immigration Authority deported nine solidarity activists who were on the Estelle solidarity ship, that…
The Canadian Boat To Gaza reported that they received a message from the Finnish Foreign Department informing that Israel informed…
Rifat Kassis is the director of Defence for Children International-Palestine Section. In 2010, I interviewed Kassis about about his organization’s…
Israeli Mayor of occupied Jerusalem, Nir Bakat, approved the demolition of two structures built by the United Nations (UN) as…
On Wednesday, 13 June 2012, the Israeli Navy attacked Oliva Boat, which monitors the situation off the Gaza coast, and…
A Swedish tourist trying to enter Israel was made to sign a “contract” promising she won’t get in touch with…
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In a European Day of Action under the banner ‘Take Apartheid off the Menu’, human rights activists in ten countries…
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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, voted Monday to extend full membership to Palestine, despite promises by…
The Quartet on the Middle East made up of the EU, UN, US, and Russia have neglected to release a…
The organizers of a 300-person tour of Palestine this week have condemned Israeli efforts to derail the program by calling…
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Organisers of the Freedom Flotilla 2 have refuted claims made by the Israeli military on Monday that participants in the…
In another escalation against the Freedom Flotilla, heading to deliver humanitarian supplies to the Gaza Strip, the Israeli government stated…
The Prime Minister of Malaysia voiced his support for the upcoming ‘Freedom Flotilla’ of aid ships and 500 supporters from…
Instructions sent to Israeli embassies around the world have outlined the diplomatic and media strategy combating Palestinian attempts to declare…
Israeli forces attacked a non-violent protest near Qalqilia Sunday, injuring several international activists including a 60-year old woman who was…
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, claimed Monday that the Freedom Flotilla solidarity ships, planning to send aid and humanitarians supplies…
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As the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) and a number of European solidarity groups declared intentions to send a relief…
Israeli forces have maintained a closure of the village of Awarta for the last three days, preventing all residents from…
In a move to improve Israel’s deteriorating image in the world, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has decided to make an…
On Tuesday, the Irish government announced it’s decision to upgrade the status of the Palestinian mission to the country, the…
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On Thursday, Palestinian negotiators asked to a number of European countries to recognize a Palestinian state in the 1967 borders,…
The Israeli government reported Thursday that documents found in one of the laptops confiscated by the Israeli Defense Forces suggest…
“Learning Each Other’s Historical Narrative” is the name of a new textbook approved for teaching in Palestinian schools but is…
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After similar boycott actions in Oakland, California, Norway and South Africa, dockworkers in Sweden have decided to block the import…
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced, Tuesday, that Israel will release and deport the 620 peace activists who were arrested…
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A number of countries have issued strong condemnations of the Israeli raid on the Freedom Flotilla, and Turkey withdrew its…
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19 activists were killed in the attack and dozens were wounded, Israeli news agencies reported.Among the wounded was Sheikh Raed…
On Sunday morning the Flotilla of humanitarian aid bound for the Gaza Strip finally set off for Gaza, after several…
The Ship to Gaza and Freedom Flotilla, currently on its way to Gaza across Mediterranean, are carrying 11 Swedish citizens.…
The Greek-Swedish solidarity ship, carrying humanitarian supplies to the Gaza Strip, sailed earlier on Tuesday morning after several hours delay…
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…
Just months after the Israeli government’s chief pathologist was exposed admitting years of involvement in organ trafficking involving both Israeli…
The Israeli Army electronics company “Elbit systems” has been barred by the Första AP-Fonden pension fund, the biggest pensions fund…
A Swedish mayor has upset the Jewish community by saying that Zionism is unacceptable in an interview published on the…
As the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is pressuring its 28 member states and dozens of partnership affiliates on five continents…
After voicing a shy call on Israeli to halt the construction of hundreds of new homes for Jewish settlers in…
Foreign Ministers of the European Union declared Tuesday support for dividing Jerusalem to be the capital of both Israel and…
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad welcomed the call of the European Union to make Jerusalem a capital of two states.The…
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Israel considered the initiative of Sweden for declaring recognizing a Palestinian State in the occupied territories, with East Jerusalem as…
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