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Huwaida Arraf – Free Gaza and Palestine

by SR Editor July 18, 2009

By Huwaida Arraf* Last month I led a group of twenty-one human rights workers on a boat from Cyprus to challenge Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip. We carried toys, medicine, olive tree saplings, toolkits, a fifty-kilo bag of cement and school supplies on our small converted ferry boat. At 2 AM on June [...]

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Adam Shapiro – Threatened And Beaten On The Way To Gaza

by SR Editor July 18, 2009

By Adam Shapiro I departed Cyprus with 20 others on June 29 in a converted ferry carrying humanitarian provisions intended for Palestinians in Gaza cut off from the world by the Israeli military siege. Our intent was to bring Palestinians toys, medicines, toolkits, olive tree saplings, and one 50-kilo bag of cement while breaking the [...]

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