As Israel bans 20 organizations working for justice for the\u00a0Palestinian people, and after Sweden recognized the state of Palestine, the international Freedom Flotilla\u00a0Coalition\u00a0met in Gothenburg, Sweden\u00a0on January 20-21, 2018\u00a0to discuss the 2018 Flotilla\u00a0mission which aims to challenge and break the illegal and inhumane Israeli\u00a0naval blockade of Gaza.\u00a0Details of this year\u2019s voyage will be made available in the spring of 2018.<\/p>\n
Representatives from campaigns in Sweden, Norway, Spain, Italy, Malaysia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States, and the International Committee on Breaking the Siege of Gaza were in Gothenburg for the\u00a0Flotilla meeting, hosted by\u00a0Ship to Gaza-Sweden.<\/p>\n
In preparation for this year\u2019s Flotilla mission, the international coalition is sponsoring a literary contest\u00a0entitled\u00a0\u201cKeys to the Future of Palestine”\u00a0<\/em>related to particularly the plight of Palestinians in Gaza, to end the illegal blockade, for freedom of movement, the right of return and for justice for the Palestinian people (watch our website for further details).<\/p>\n Submissions are due March 1, 2018. One winner will be selected from submissions in each of the participating languages (Arabic, Spanish and English, at least). A jury for each language will be composed of persons from the literary and cultural world. Winning entries will be announced in the media, published on the FFC websites and other noteworthy places. The decisions of the juries will be announced on Palestinian Land Day, March 30, 2018.<\/p>\n The Freedom Flotilla\u00a0Coalition\u00a0and Free Gaza Movement before it have sailed 31 boats to break the blockade of Gaza since 2008. In 2018\u00a0we again sail to break the illegal and inhumane blockade of Gaza, to demand full freedom of movement for all Palestinians, and to challenge the occupation of Palestine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As Israel bans 20 organizations working for justice for the\u00a0Palestinian people, and after Sweden recognized the state of Palestine, the international Freedom Flotilla\u00a0Coalition\u00a0met in Gothenburg, Sweden\u00a0on January 20-21, 2018\u00a0to discuss the 2018 Flotilla\u00a0mission which aims to challenge and break the illegal and inhumane Israeli\u00a0naval blockade of Gaza.\u00a0Details of this year\u2019s voyage will be made available […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,36],"tags":[162,157,158],"class_list":["post-1100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ffc-statements","category-news","tag-coalicion-internacional-flotilla-de-la-libertad","tag-freedom-flotilla-coalition","tag-ship-to-gaza-sweden"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"fr","enabled_languages":["en","ar","es","it","fr"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"ar":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"es":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"it":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"fr":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgf.freedomflotilla.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgf.freedomflotilla.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgf.freedomflotilla.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgf.freedomflotilla.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgf.freedomflotilla.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sgf.freedomflotilla.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"https:\/\/sgf.freedomflotilla.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions\/1134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgf.freedomflotilla.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgf.freedomflotilla.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgf.freedomflotilla.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgf.freedomflotilla.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}