FREE GAZA 21 UPDATE - 5 July 09 Video - Free Gaza News Prisoners
by Free Gaza Team Tuesday, Jul. 07, 2009 at 12:38 AM

We are NOT the Story, It's Not Just Our 21 Kidnapped Passengers. It's Palestine, the world's largest openair prison...........On Tuesday, July 30 the Israeli Navy forcibly boarded our boat, SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, confiscating the ship and abducting 21 human rights workers and journalists, including Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire and former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. Israel's violent actions temporarily prevented us from delivering much needed humanitarian and reconstruction supplies to besieged Gaza.

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The kidnapping of 21 international human rights workers attempting to deliver needed aid to a besieged people is an outrage, but it is hardly an isolated one.

* View video "5th July 09 Video Free Gaza News Prisoners" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ri8jWj_KbY

Since its founding in 1948 the State of Israel has regularly kidnapped and tortured Palestinians, throwing them into forgotten prisons where they can languish for years. Today, over 11,000 Palestinian political prisoners without benefit of due process, some never even charged - men, women, and children endure torture and isolation in Israeli jails, outdoor prison camps, and secret black sites. They come from all walks of life: doctors, journalists, parliamentarians, workers, resistance fighters, homemakers, students and others. They are our sisters and brothers.

From the first night, the Free Gaza 21 have been busy trying to get news out of the prison about the illegality of Israel's actions in relation to themselves and the other inmates inside Ramle Prison who have no voice.

* View video "5th July 09 Video Free Gaza News Prisoners" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ri8jWj_KbY

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