During the Israeli attack on the Mavi Marmara, deep in international waters, I was inside the body of the ship. We were going to Gaza to break the siege that Israel has imposed on a million-and-a-half people for the last four years. Lubna Masarwa writes from house arrest in Kfor Qara. Read more about The crimes I saw on the Mavi Marmara 

RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - Although Israel successfully controlled news of its deadly commando raid on the Freedom Flotilla during the first crucial 48 hours of media coverage, emerging evidence from witnesses and survivors is challenging the Israeli government’s version of events. Read more about Israel's media blackout, doctored Flotilla recording condemned 

TEL AVIV (IPS) - Attempts by media to interview some of the hundreds of Freedom Flotilla members, who were being deported from Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport, Wednesday, were thwarted by Israeli authorities. “No you will not be able to talk to them or interview them,” a deputy-spokesman from Israel’s ministry of foreign affairs told IPS. Read more about Israel censors news on deadly Flotilla raid 

An Arab member of the Israeli parliament who was on board the international flotilla that was attacked on Monday as it tried to take humanitarian aid to Gaza accused Israel yesterday of intending to kill peace activists as a way to deter future convoys. Jonathan Cook reports. Read more about Israeli MP's terror aboard aid ship 

GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - Life can be hard working in these tunnels, and it is always at risk. But many have no choice but to work in them, particularly since mid-2007, when Israel and Egypt, with the help of the international community, imposed a siege of staggering severity on the 1.5 million humans in the Gaza Strip. Read more about "No other options:" Gaza's tunnel industry 

As news was released of Israel’s attack on the Freedom Flotilla and rising casualties among the passengers, the mood at Gaza’s modest seaport grew somber. Hundreds of civilians including governmental and non-governmental representatives, activists, and ordinary Palestinians were waiting anxiously to welcome those on board the Flotilla. Rami Almeghari writes from the occupied Gaza Strip. Read more about Besieged Palestinians outraged over Israel's attack on Flotilla 

The central Sergels Torg square in Stockholm is not the place you would normally expect to hear the words “stop the blockade,” or “boycott Israel,” or even “In our souls and with our blood we support you Palestine,” in Arabic no less. Sami Halabi and Assaad Thebian report from the Swedish capital on protests against Israel’s attacks on the Freedom Flotilla aid convoy. Read more about Thousands rally for Freedom Flotilla in Stockholm 

A leading human rights activist from Israel’s Palestinian Arab minority was charged yesterday with the most serious security offenses on Israel’s statute book, including espionage. Prosecutors indicted Ameer Makhoul, the head of Ittijah, an umbrella organization for Arab human rights groups in Israel, with spying on security facilities on behalf of Hizballah after an alleged meeting with one of its agents in Denmark in 2008. Jonathan Cook reports. Read more about Israel indicts tortured rights activist Ameer Makhoul 

On 16 May, bulldozers demolished 20 houses in the al-Barahma neighborhood west of Rafah in the southern occupied Gaza Strip. This tragic scene has been repeated all too many times in Palestine’s history, but what made this different, and a subject of great controversy and outcry, is that it was carried out by the Palestinian Land Authority (PLA), backed by police from the Hamas government. Rami Almeghari reports for The Electronic Intifada. Read more about Gaza home demolitions spark anger, highlight housing crisis