Netanyahu Vows to ‘Tighten’ Gaza Blockade

06-21-2010 • AntiWar.com

Officials say that banned luxury goods like pasta and cordiander will be allowed into the Gaza Strip under the new list, but so far the government has been mum on the most needed item, cement.

No humanitarian aid aboard Mavi Marmara

06-14-2010 • Israel National News

Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that there were never any humanitarian supplies or equipment aboard the Mavi Marmara, where Israeli commandos were ambushed by armed mercenaries posing as peace activists.

Israeli Soldier's Eye Witness Account off Gaza

06-11-2010 • arclein

When they finished they took a knife and expanded the wound he already had in his stomach. They cut his ab muscles horizontally and by hand spilled his guts out.

Roger Waters Records a Version of "We Shall Overcome"

06-10-2010 • Sharlene Holt, Musicians 4 Freedom

British musician Roger Waters of the iconic rock band Pink Floyd sings a new version of “We Shall Overcome” in a music video cut to footage from the upcoming documentary, “Roadmap to Apartheid."

Israeli document: Gaza blockade isn't about security

06-10-2010 • McClatchy News

As Israel ordered a slight easing of its blockade of Gaza, McClatchy obtained an Israeli government document that describes the blockade not as a security measure but as "economic warfare" against the [elected] Islamist group Hamas, which rules the P

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard offers to escort future Gaza aid vessels

06-08-2010 • Raw Story

Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards are ready to provide a military escort to cargo ships trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza

The Silent War: Israel's Blockade of Gaza

06-07-2010 • YouTube - MedicalAidPalestine

Contrary to propaganda originating in Israel, Gaza is not the land of plenty and Israel is not the great benefactor of the Palestinians. Rather, the people of Gaza are being made to suffer as few in the U.S. can imagine; all because of the illegal bl

What the media won't report about Gaza

06-07-2010 • National Post

Contrary to popular opinion, many Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza live a middle class (and in some cases an upper class) lifestyle that western journalists refuse to report because it doesn’t fit with their simplistic story.

Hamas Halts Transfer of Aid to Gaza

06-07-2010 • Israel National News

The Hamas government in Gaza is apparently not interested in receiving the goods that were carried by the 'humanitarian' Turkey-sponsored flotilla Israel intercepted.

(Wake up, blind America) 10,000 protest flotilla attack in Israel

06-06-2010 • Mondoweiss

Not only was this one of the largest peace demonstrations for a long time, but also the first time that all parts of the Israeli peace camp - from Gush Shalom and Hadash to Peace Now and Meretz – did unite for common action. The main slogan was “The

Israel Navy Massacres Freedom Flotilla Passengers in International Waters

06-06-2010 • YouTube - justicentric

Unedited version of video that has been released previously, though heavily edited, by Israel in an attempt to back its version of the raid on the unarmed Gaza aid flotilla.

How Israeli propaganda shaped U.S. media coverage of the flotilla attack

06-06-2010 • Glenn Greenwald - salon.com

It was clear from the moment news of the flotilla attack emerged that Israel was taking extreme steps to suppress all evidence about what happened other than its own official version.

Gaza flotilla organizer admits activists seized weapons from IDF commandos

06-05-2010 • Haaretz

Bulent Yildirim, who was deported from Israel along with hundreds of other foreigners who tried breaching an Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip, said activists grabbed weapons from IDF commandos, but then threw them into the sea.

Flotilla protesters threw guns overboard

06-04-2010 • The Jerusalem Post

Aside from the knifes, rocks, and slingshots found in a search of the Mavi Marmara, weapons were discovered leading Israeli defense officials to believe that there may have been weapons on board along with plans to kidnap an IDF commando.

Turkey PM: Hamas is not a terrorist group

06-04-2010 • The Herald Sun - Australia

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared on Friday at a rally in the Turkish province of Konya that Hamas is a resistance movement and not a terrorist group.

IDF: 50 flotilla passengers were Turkish mercenaries

06-04-2010 • The Jerusalem Post

The members of the mercenary group were not carrying identity cards or passports. Each of them had an envelope in his pocket with about $10,000 in cash in which the funding for the mercenaries may have come from elements within the Turkish government

MV Rachel Corrie due to reach Gaza within hours

06-04-2010 • War in Context

The MV Rachel Corrie, a cargo ship in the Freedom Flotilla whose passage from Ireland was delayed by mechanical difficulties, is now hours away from its destination. "I commend this courageous action of brave international civilians who are carryi

US citizen killed on flotilla was reportedly shot four times in head

06-03-2010 • Rawstory

"One of the nine people killed in the Israeli raid on an aid flotilla Monday was a 19-year-old man with dual U.S.-Turkish citizenship, a U.S. State Department official said," CBS News reports.

Israel resists international probe into Gaza ship raid

06-03-2010 • Reuters

Israel on Thursday resisted calls for an international inquiry to investigate its lethal seizure of a Turkish ship bound for blockaded Gaza. The United States, less outspoken than most of Israel's enemies and friends backed calls for an international

Paintballs to pistols, Israel admits ship blunders

06-03-2010 • Reuters

Wrong intelligence, wrong guns, wrong tactics. Israel's military acknowledged big mistakes on Tuesday during the bungled boarding of a Gaza-bound aid ship in which elite troops killed nine international activists.

Flotilla activists wanted to be martyrs

06-02-2010 • The U.K. Telegraph

Two of the Turkish men shot dead during the Israeli commando raid on an aid flotilla heading for the Gaza strip were activists who wanted to be martyrs for their faith.

In raw video, reporters claim Israelis fired on activists before boarding ship

06-01-2010 • Rawstory

In raw video captured by Al Jazeera and published to YouTube, journalists provide a play-by-play of the harrowing event as pops and cracks echo in the background. Even before the Israeli forces were aboard, one says, they were pelting the boat with t

Israel: 'Next time we'll use more force'

06-01-2010 • Jerusalem Post

Israel will use more aggressive force in the future to prevent ships from breaking the sea blockade on the Gaza Strip, a top Navy commander said. "We boarded the ship and were attacked as if it was a war," the officer said. "That will mean that we wi

USS Liberty Survivor detained by Israel

06-01-2010 • http://www.whec.com/news/stories/S1584439.shtml?ca

Joe Meadors, survivor of the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty was hoping to drop a wreath off the coast of Gaza to honor his ship and shipmates. He is now one hundreds detained after the attack on the flotilla in international waters.

Flotillas and the Wars of Public Opinion

05-31-2010 • Stratfor Global Intelligence

The flotilla achieved its strategic mission. It got Israel to take violent action against it. In doing so, Israel ran into its own fist.

Israel raids humanitarian flotilla (graphic video)

05-31-2010 • youtube

Israel raids humanitarian flotilla (a lot of wounded--at least one guy convulsing in death and the raid itself--you have been warned) in Arabic. al-Jazeera video At least nine switching cameras--fairly raw footage from the raided vessel.

Obama administration concerned about Gaza incident

05-31-2010 • AP

The White House speaking on the eve of a meeting of President Obama with the Israeli Prime Minister, said the US "deeply regrets the loss of life and injuries sustained" in the incident and are "currently working to understand the circumstances surro