The Freedom Flotilla Coalition
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) is a grassroots people-to-people solidarity movement that was established in 2010 to peacefully support the rights of Palestinian people and end the illegal Israeli blockade of Gaza. The FFC works based on campaigns and initiatives from different parts of the world, working with with civil society partners. The FFC’s goals include raising global awareness about the blockade of Gaza, condemning the complicity that enables the blockade, and responding to calls from Palestinians and Palestinian organisations in Gaza for solidarity to break the blockade.
Human rights defenders in the OPT are subjected to acts of harassment, restrictions on freedom of movement, stigmatisation, abductions, long periods of arbitrary detention usually under administrative detention orders, illegal searches of their homes and offices and killings. Many of the violations are state-sanctioned, or if not sanctioned at the highest levels of the Israeli political and military establishment, then condoned by the ongoing policy of impunity which permeates the military and judicial system in relation to the OPT. In some instances Israeli settlers have also been the perpetrators of violence against human rights defenders.
