Israeli leaders nervously await arrest warrants; Leaked Columbia Univ document reveals discriminatory policies for Tel Aviv program; Orthodox Palm Sunday; Israel puts young Christian woman in prison for 4 months (renewable), no charges; World Central Kitchen has returned; Biden ignores Gaza in Correspondents’ Dinner speech…
Tags: freedom flotilla
Nationwide, Palestine supporters demand their free speech rights – Day 204
Protests and repression throughout the US; Israeli airstrike kills family members of revered poet; more UNRWA cases closed; Palestinians to be represented in Olympics; ceasefire talks; Gaza water crisis; State Dept memo: Israel may be violating int’l law; Biden snubs Muslim American voters…
US backs down on plan to sanction Israeli battalion, in spite of US law – Day 203
US won’t follow through on sanctions on IDF units; Netanyahu calls for crackdown on American students; Emory president defends police violently arresting female prof who tried to stop police beating students; Gazan dead show signs of possible organ theft; Israeli police arrest rabbis marching to Gaza; Israel gives Hamas a “last chance” before Rafah invasion; UNRWA employee case closed; Freedom Flotilla…
Final count: bodies of 392 Gazan Palestinians discovered in mass graves – Day 202
Gruesome discoveries on Gaza hospital grounds; Israeli strike kills Belgian aid worker & son, 7; premature baby girl has died; another US State Dept employee resigns; military-industrial complex profits from weapon sales to Israel; “Biden has betrayed the soul of our nation”; Freedom Flotilla: Israel plays dirty (again); nonviolent campus protests spread, met with violence
US Congress just approved billions more in military aid to Israel, as Gazans die – Day 200
More weapons to Israel as it plans a potentially genocidal invasion (that US opposes); aid orgs shocked by the recklessness of the plan; Israel holds highest ever number of Palestinians in administrative detention – no charges, no trial; Israel reportedly about to invade Beit Lahiya, denies burying Gazans in mass graves; Israeli forces kill Palestinian woman near Hebron; Google fires more employees over its provision of tech to Israeli gov’t; updates on Freedom Flotilla, campus protests, more
UNICEF: one child in Gaza is killed or injured every ten minutes – Day 196
The plight of children in Gaza; waste crisis, water crisis, respiratory illnesses plague Gaza; 2024 Freedom Flotilla participants assemble; massive Israeli raid in Tulkarem’s Nur Shams camp with multiple deaths; House passes bill that includes $13B aid package to Israel; more
Freedom Flotilla Coalition to bring aid, international observers to Gaza this month
Peace activists from around the world will accompany the Gaza Freedom Flotilla once again as it brings desperately-needed humanitarian aid to the Strip. Historically, Israel has blocked the vessels and arrested or killed activists.
Deported Swedish activist: ‘This is how Israel treated us in prison’
Divinia Levrini describes how flotilla activists were treated in prison: withholding of medical treatment, beatings, “mind games,” strip searching, theft, & death threats.
One Freedom Flotilla Passenger was a USS Liberty Survivor
Joe Meadors – passenger on the Freedom Flotilla ship intercepted by Israel and detained illegally – was on the USS Liberty in ’67, attacked by Israel, 34 Americans were killed.
Flotilla update: most participants in prison; grave concern for their safety, cargo
Israeli passenger says 1st Freedom Flotilla vessel was captured with some violence in int’l waters; passengers’ safety in question. Israel must be held accountable.









