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We set sail to become human again: the Global Sumud Flotilla logbook.

Lucio, Manfredo and Stefano are on the boats of the Global Sumud Flotilla and will recount their adventure for Pressenza. This is their first logbook. Fair winds from the entire editorial team. A tsunami of humanity is about to unleash…

Catalans rally en masse for the Global Sumud Flotilla, which bids farewell to Barcelona

During the weekend of August 29-31, the port of Barcelona was the scene of a moving event in support of Palestine, organized to bid farewell to the Global Sumud Flotilla. On Sunday, August 31, at 3:35 p.m., the boats set…

In the West Bank, water is weaponized

Israelis settlers in the West Bank, consume up to 10 times more water than Palestinians. This isn’t simply about scarcity, it’s about control. And for Palestinian farming families, it means every day is a struggle to hold onto their land, their crops, and their…

Fast for Justice: Four Days of Awareness and Action for Palestine in Montreal

 I announce that I will sit at Place des Fleurs-de-Macadam in Montreal for 4 days, from August 8 to 11, for an awareness-raising action and a call to collective action in support of the martyred Palestinian people. During these 4…

Statement on the escalating atrocities in Gaza and the West Bank

As a binational movement of Palestinians and Israelis committed to nonviolence and equality, Combatants for Peace issues this urgent statement in light of the deepening humanitarian and political crisis across Gaza and the West Bank: In response to the continued…

The deadly and unresolved hypocricy of Europe

When Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933 The US and several European countries started to do bussiness with him and his nazi party. The Netherlands was one of them. All of them putted a blind eye to what…

The Urgency of Abolishing Britain’s Colonial Bases in Cyprus

As the Gaza Freedom Flotilla approached Palestinian waters, a British spy flight took off from a British military base on Cyprus to surveil Gaza. Despite the recent narrative shift on relations with Israel, Britain remains deeply involved in the genocide…

People’s Peace Summit in Jerusalem, May 8 and 9. What kind of peace are we talking about?

Indeed: what kind? The question comes naturally, as we prepare to witness with bated breath the final showdown on every possible front: with the announced ground offensive in the Gaza Strip, with the Palestinians (already exhausted by the aid blockade,…

Towards the People’s Peace Summit in Jerusalem, May 8-9. Many for the twentieth Joint Ceremony of the Combatantss for Peace

We already had a beautiful, shared and highly attended preview of what the now imminent People’s Peace Summit will be like last night with the twentieth edition of the Israeli-Palestinian Joint Memorial Ceremony, as always organized by Combatants for Peace…

Towards the People’s Peace Summit in Jerusalem, May 8-9. “Our full support to the civil society” says the Palestinian activist Nivine Sandouka

Nivine Sandouka is a Palestinian lifelong human rights activist and feminist, and is the current regional director of ALLMEP Alliance for Middle East Peace, a network of 170 organizations in various ways committed to building peace and a future of reconciliation.She previously worked…

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