Posted on August 23rd, 2008 by Marian Houk
Reporting from Ashdod Marina in southern Israel about 30 minutes ago, Free Gaza spokeswoman Angela Godfrey-Goldstein says in an email sent to journalists that the SS Free Gaza and SS Liberty, two converted fishing boats sailing from Cyprus to Gaza, “are now about to turn into Gazan waters, and may God speed them safe to [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Gaza, Israel, Law of the Sea Convention, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on August 22nd, 2008 by Marian Houk
The Free Gaza expedition of two ships that left Cyprus Friday morning heading for the Gaza Strip is now reporting that electronic jamming measures have started, directed apparently against them. A statement reports that “At 10am this morning, the Cyprus team of the Free Gaza Movement was able to briefly speak with our people on [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Law of the Sea Convention, Palestine & Palestinians, UN Secretary-General
Posted on August 22nd, 2008 by Marian Houk
24 hours into the Free Gaza expedition that set sail in two converted fishing ships from Cyprus on Friday morning heading in the direction of Gaza, the groups website reports that the most recent reported location of the boats is: Latitude:32.4755, Longitude:33.8666 [Time:08/23/2008 04:06:11 (GMT) - just after 6 am on board the boats]. It [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Cyprus, Gaza, International Law, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Palestine & Palestinians, Sanctions
Posted on August 21st, 2008 by Marian Houk
The Free Gaza expedition’s two ships, the SS Free Gaza and SS Liberty, have set sail at 9:06 am this morning towards Gaza, according to the group’s website. A group of 46 activists from around the world are said to be on board. The trip has been in preparation for over a year. The stated [...]
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Filed under: Cyprus, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Israel, Law of the Sea Convention, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians
Posted on August 20th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Posted on August 18th, 2008 by Marian Houk
This morning, when I woke up, it was impossible to make coffee. There was no electricity. When I went out, I found that the whole street was out of electricity (but not the Tibi house around the corner). The grocer on the corner had no electricity either, and he was worried about his freezer full [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, International Law, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Register of damages due to The Wall
Posted on August 17th, 2008 by Marian Houk
This is the main way between Jerusalem and Ramallah. The road just beside The Wall was closed by Israeli security yet again today, for the addition of more security measures before Ramadan (the 30-day month of fasting expected to start this year on 1 September), when Palestinians desperately want to go to pray at Al-Aqsa [...]
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Filed under: Boundaries & Borders, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Register of damages due to The Wall
Posted on August 16th, 2008 by Marian Houk
Nobody knows anything, of course. Why should we know? It doesn’t matter what anyone thinks or feels, or how their lives will be affected. The tension and the stress and the incertitude continue, without any information. Until this weekend, it was thought that it would be closed by the 15th of August. But that didn’t [...]
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Filed under: International Law, Israel, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Register of damages due to The Wall
Posted on August 16th, 2008 by Marian Houk
It really gets on your nerves, sometimes. At a checkpoint this morning, the soldier took my passport, then barked: “Where are you from?” he asked. “You mean where was I born? That’s different than where I am from. It’s written on my passport — New York”, I said. [Huda reported that she was stopped at [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Gaza, Haiti, Iran, Israel, Japan, Journalism and Journalists, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, UN Secretary-General, United Nations Agencies and Programmes
Posted on August 16th, 2008 by Marian Houk
“Those who you love are gone, gone. You either exist or you don’t…” … from a translation posted by As’ad AbuKhalil on his Angry Arab blog today here of what he said was “one of Mahmud Darwish’s greatest poems, In Praise of the High Shadow” Mahmoud Darwish was buried on Wednesday. A reported 10,000 persons [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, UN Secretary-General
