Articles by Yvonne Ridley

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All At Sea
Yvonne Ridley - ICH, 7 Jun 2010

How many remember the hijacking of the Achille Lauro? One cannot attack a ship and then claim self-defence if the people on board resist the unlawful use of violence.

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TELLING THE TRUTH
Yvonne Ridley, in Cairo, 3 Jan 2010

I am in Egypt now following the Free Gaza Movement of 1400 peace activists who gathered in Cairo from more than 40 different countries. Their week-long efforts to get to Gaza to give humanitarian aid and messages of goodwill and solidarity to the Palestinians have been thwarted with the utmost vigour and enthusiasm by the […]

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GAZA OR BUST
Yvonne Ridley, 10 Mar 2009

March 09, 2009 — The last 24 hours have probably been the blackest since the Viva Palestina convoy set off from London. Yesterday the convoy members became the target of an orchestrated wave of violence first started by Egyptian police and then culminating in vicious attacks by unknown thugs. The end result was a number […]

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FOR THE FISHERMEN OF GAZA
Yvonne Ridley, 19 Feb 2009

As the sun rose over the Tarifa ferry terminal in Southern Spain this morning the view was quite spectacular as row after row of vehicles from the Viva Palestina convoy lined up for the next leg of our mercy mission to Gaza. But what really caught my eye this time was a boat which was […]

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