Tag: Gaza blockade
Family pleas for kidnapped 3 Kiwis as Gaza flotilla demands global activists’ freedom from Israel
Asia Pacific Report
Three New Zealanders are being illegally held hostage by the Israeli military after security forces boarded more than 50 boats of the...
Improvements in Pacific media freedom, but a shameful silence on Gaza ‘death trap’
ANALYSIS: By David Robie, Pacific Media Watch
When the Paris-based global watchdog Reporters Without Borders released their annual World Press Freedom Index dossier online three...
Did NZ’s Prime Minister just commit treason? PM ignores terrorist attack on his own citizens
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
“Whoever uses a citizen ill, indirectly offends the state, which is bound to protect this citizen; and the sovereign should avenge...
‘They threatened to kill us at gunpoint,’ says NZ Gaza flotilla activist
By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report
A New Zealander who took part in the global flotilla trying to break the illegal Gaza siege...
Global Sumud Flotilla calls on NZ govt to intervene after Israeli interception
RNZ News
The Global Sumud Flotilla is demanding the New Zealand government intervene to uphold international law, after being intercepted by Israel.
It said 22 boats...
Egyptian crackdown on Gaza blockade busters but Kiwi activists vow to ‘defeat genocide’
SPECIAL REPORT: By Saige England in Ōtautahi and Ava Mulla in Cairo
Hope for freedom for Palestinians remains high among a group of trauma-struck New...