Free Gaza movement

Israel Attacks on Gaza:
Why would Israel deny occupation of the Gaza Strip yet its forces control Gaza’s air, Land and sea? Books, journals and the website contain a lot of information on Gaza which has greatly helped in the compilation of this research paper. The Free Gaza movement is an example of Transnational Advocacy Network which has been fighting for the freedom of Gaza as a result of its occupation by Israel. The Free Gaza Movement’s website contains information about when it was formed and the aims of forming this activist movement. One of the most densely populated strips in the world is Gaza Strip. Wedged between Egypt and Israel, the Gaza strip is a 25 Mile long and narrow coastal plain land that houses approximately one and a half million Palestinians. Most of this population is comprised of children and the people who live in this strip are either the refugees or the descendants of the refugees who upon its founding in 1948 were driven out of Israel. There only exists three entry or exit points in Gaza, namely the sea, the Raffa crossing in Egypt and the Erez border crossing found in Israel (Times, 2007).
Gaza has been occupied by Israel Since 1967 and up to now, Israel maintains full control over Gaza’s territorial waters, airspace and transport to and from the region. Israel from 2006 has subjected Gaza towards severe blockade and therefore restricted its ability to import essential commodities like fuel, spare parts and other important basic materials. It is therefore not a wonder to discover that around 20% of the supplies needed by Gaza for normal trading can only be allowed into Gaza by Israel. It is by such statistics that Gaza’s economy had dwindled completely and foreign investments decreased to 95 percent.
It was on this basis that the Free Gaza Movement was formed so that Gaza should be opened to unrestricted access and thereafter realist the sovereignty of Palestine. Free Gaza Movement is an international activist movement which uses non-violence resistance to challenge the occupation of Gaza by Israel. It comprises a group of human rights workers and observers, journalists and aid workers who have a lot of experience of volunteering in the West Bank and Gaza at the invitation of the people of Palestine (Wallach, 2010).
The Free Gaza Movement is therefore a human rights activist group which has transnational collective action. Since its formation in August 2008, it has managed to travel nine times to Gaza strip through the use of the sea so that to break the illegal stranglehold of Israel on the 1.5 million Palestinian people. The movement has successfully managed to enter Gaza successfully five times in 2008. However, during the past four voyages, the members of the Free Gaza movement have been violently intercepted by Israel’s lethal attacks on their ship called Freedom Flotilla when nine of the members were murdered and many others injured by the Israel’s commandos (Free Gaza Team, 2010).
The transnational advocacy networks have interacted between states and international organizations in order to influence policy. These transnational advocacy networks have principled values or ideas in their formation. These advocacy networks build their new links in states, civil societies and...