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  • 15 Nov 2012
    Jewish Voice for Peace calls for an end to attacks on Gaza

    Jewish Voice for Peace has called for an immediate end to Israeli air strikes and naval bombardment into Gaza and an end to the ongoing siege there.

  • 15 Nov 2012
    Behind the latest assault on Gaza

    The latest Israeli Defence Force assault on Gaza, in addition to its targeted assassinations against political as well as military opponents, is horrifying and disturbing. It threatens to escalate into yet another cycle of violence and war-making that does nothing for the security of Jews or Arabs, Israelis or Palestinians. It merely reaps death, destruction, hatred and mistrust.

  • 25 Mar 2011
    From Gaza to Jerusalem: Jewish Voice for Peace

    "In mourning the nine lives lost in Gaza and the one life lost in Jerusalem this week," says Jewish Voice for Peace, "we reject the pattern of condemning the deaths of Israelis while ignoring the deaths of Palestinians. We do not discriminate. One life lost is one life too many - whether Palestinian or Israeli." JVP also situate the events within the context of 44 years of the Israeli occupation of Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem.

  • 29 Sep 2010
    Israeli treatment of Jewish aid ship to Gaza condemned

    Israeli naval warships have intercepted an aid ship carrying Jewish activists trying to get assistance through to the blockaded Gaza Strip.

  • 29 Aug 2010
    Plight of Gaza highlighted at Christian festival

    Thousands of participants in the four-day Greenbelt Christian arts festival in Cheltenham have been reminded about the plight of blockaded Gaza.

  • 19 Aug 2010
    Women-only aid ship due to sail to blockaded Gaza

    A women-only Lebanese aid ship named after the Virgin Mary plans to break the Gaza blockade imposed by Israel sometime next week.

  • 19 Jan 2010
    End the punitive Gaza blockade, says human rights group

    One year on from the end of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, Amnesty has called on Israel to lift its “suffocating” blockade as the organisation released a new briefing on the plight of Palestinians living under the blockade.

  • 30 Jun 2009
    Israeli forces attack ‘mercy ship’, forcibly remove human rights workers

    Israeli forces have attacked and boarded a boat carrying medicines and aid to Palestinians in Gaza and removed 21 human rights workers from 11 countries.

  • 13 Jan 2009
    'Mercy ship' to arrive at Gaza today

    A ‘mercy’ ship carrying European Parliamentarians arrives at Gaza today on an emergency mission, carrying desperately needed medical supplies. The Free Gaza Movement ship, Spirit of Humanity, left Larnaca Port yesterday.

  • 6 Nov 2008
    Peace ship to carry British Parliamentarians to Gaza

    British Parliamentarians are to lead a voyage on a 'peace ship' which will breach the Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip. The boat - the 20 foot SS Dignity - leaves on Friday, and will travel from Larnaca to Gaza.