Passenger Lists

Huwaida Arraf (Palestine)

2008-08-21T03:45:04Z

Huwaida is a Palestinian-American, and also a citizen of Israel. She is a human rights activist and co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement. In 2007 she received her Juris Doctor from American University in Washington D.C. and she is currently teaching Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Al Quds University in Jerusalem.

Phone:+970.599.130.426

Vittorio Arrigoni (Italy)

2008-08-21T03:56:07Z

Vittorio has wide experience in international charity work and in the battle for human rights in Europe and Eastern Europe and Africa. In 2003 Vittorio first visit to Palestine, at first in a work camp managed by IPYL in Eastern Jerusalem and later in Nablus in the Balata refugee camp. In 2006, trying to go back to Palestine, he was held in Israeli detention for a week while appealing a decision to deny him entry, then expelled from the country. In August 2006, at the request of the European Union, Vittorio attended the first free elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as an international observer. Vittorio manages one of the most popular blogs in Italy at: http://guerrillaradio.iobloggo.com

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Greta Berlin (USA)

2008-08-21T04:00:55Z

A cofounder of the Free Gaza Movement, Greta Berlin since the early 1960s has advocated for justice for the Palestinian people. She is the mother of two Palestinian/American children, whose father was born and raised in Safad, Palestine. She has been an outspoken advocate for the rights of Palestinians and has spoken and written extensively about what she has witnessed during her three trips to the Occupied West Bank. When not working with Palestinians, Greta has spent 30 years teaching engineers and scientists how to design and deliver presentations. She has been in the West Bank three times since 2003 and was wounded by Israeli gunfire in July 2003 while trying to pull down the gate in the fence at Anin, just outside of Jenin.

Phone:+357.99.08.17.67

Lauren Booth (UK)

2008-08-21T04:06:07Z

Lauren, a broadcaster and journalist, has regular columns in the Mail on Sunday and writes features for the Sunday Times and Femail. In 2005 Lauren travelled to the West Bank where she interviewed Mahmoud Abbas. She recently visited the region again and is campaigning for justice for Palestine.

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Dr. Uri Davis (Palestine)

2008-08-21T04:17:24Z

Uri, 64, is an international acclaimed author, academic and peace activist who calls himself an anti-zionist Palestinian Jew born in Jerusalem. He is an observer member of the Palestine National Council.

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Monir M Deeb (Palestine/USA)

2008-08-21T04:19:37Z

Monir was born in 1951 in Gaza City, Palestine, to refugee parents from Haifa and El Majdel (today called Ashkelon). He came to the USA in 1979 and is a naturalized US citizen. He is the past president of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), LA chapter, and was a speaker in the Arab-Jewish Speakers Bureau in Los Angeles. He owns a construction company in Northridge, California, where he resides with his wife and three children.

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Dr Bill Dienst (USA)

2008-08-21T04:24:10Z

Bill is a Family and Emergency Room physician for Omak, a town in rural Washington in the northwestern United States. In 1985, after an intensive summer course in Arabic, Bill took an extra year of medical school, and spent a half year in Egypt, the West Bank and Gaza volunteering with various Palestinian healthcare organizations, initially with the Palestine Red Crescent Society headquartered in Egypt. He has been to Palestine on trips sponsored by the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, by Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility to Israel/Palestine and with the Palestine Medical Relief Society.

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Ana Maria Del Mar (Spain)

2008-08-21T04:29:39Z

From Vilanova I La Geltru, Cataluna, Ana Maria worked 25 years as a criminal lawyer and has visited the West Bank six times. In 2005, badly injured by an Israeli soldier while at a non-violent demonstration against the building of the separation wall in Bil\'in, she had her upper arm broken in two places. She was injured again in 2006 at another Bil\'in demonstration when shot at close range with a plastic coated bullet. On this trip to Gaza she hopes to help ease the Gazan people\'s suffering and help prevent the Israeli government from persecuting innocent civilians.

Phone:+34.671.002015

Hedy Epstein (USA)

2008-08-21T04:31:36Z

Hedy was born in Freiburg, Germany on 8/15/1924, the only child of Ella & Hugo Wachenheimer. She lived in Kippenheim, 30 km north of Freiburg, where her father\'s side of the family had lived for generations. She left Germany at 14, in1939, on a Kindertransport (children\'s transport), to London, England - one of almost 10,000 mostly Jewish children. Both her parents, as well as other family members, perished in Auschwitz in 1942. In July 1945, she returned to Germany to work for the American government, first with the U.S. Civil Censorship Division and then as a research analyst at the Nuremberg trial of the Nazi doctors who performed medical experiments on concentration camp inmates. In May 1945, she arrived in the United States and quickly became involved in peace and social justice issues. Since 2003, she has visited Israeli-occupied West Bank five times to witness the effects of Israel\'s occupation.

Phone:+44.787.224.9933

Musheir El-Farra (Palestine/UK)

2008-08-21T04:35:06Z

Originally from Khan Younis in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, Musheir is married to Dr. Wesam Al Qarra and has three children. Born in Khan Younis on 25 May 1961, he is a civil and structural engineer in the UK, from where he also coordinates support for four children\'s projects in the Gaza Strip: Al Asria Children\'s Library project in Jabalia refugee camp; "New Horizons" children\'s centre in Nussairat refugee camp; "Never Stop Dreaming" Children\'s Centre in Khan Younis, and the "Children\'s Mobile Library". He made a documentary film called "Voices through the Rubble" about the situation in the Gaza Strip in 2004 and is making another documentary about the visit of Al Asria children Folk dance group to Britain in 2005. In 2007 he was prevented form travelling to the Gaza Strip to visit his elderly mother before her death. He writes political and social articles in Arabic in Al Quds newspaper.

Phone:+44.771.504.8821