Activists on the Swedish Ship to Gaza have claimed that a cyber attack on their website is the latest attempt to sabotage the aid mission of the Freedom Flotilla II. Read the full story

Birgitta Jonsdottir, an Icelandic parliamentarian for The Movement, is the first MP from any country to visit the Gaza Freedom Flotilla this year. Read the full story

A Swedish ship, which was set to sail to Gaza as part of an aid flotilla at the end of the week, has been sabotaged, according to reports. Read the full story

Danish activists have announced that they will join a new flotilla of boats to the Palestinian Gaza Strip, just over a year after nine civilians were killed on-board a Turkish vessel that tried to break the Israeli blockade. Read the full story

Ismael Hanieh, first minister of the Palistinian home government in Gaza and a leader of Hamas, has formally invited the Icelandic President and Minister for Foreign Affairs for an official visit to Gaza. Read the full story

Norway has told a German shipbuilding firm that it will no longer be able to test Israel-bound submarines in its waters. Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW) has been asked to find somewhere else to carry out its checks as Norway continues its ban on security exports to Israel. Read the full story

Icelandic artist Snorri Asmundsson is set to visit Palestine and Israel this September with his meditation pyramid. Read the full story

A Swedish novelist could be excused for getting his knickers in a twist after he received his confiscated bag back from the Israeli government, only to find it full of women’s clothes. Henning Mankell had his belongings seized in June when Israeli troops raided the Gaza-bound ship he was travelling on. He has since had his bag returned, but to his surprise, he found most of his possessions had been replaced with female attire. Read the full story

The head of the United Nations Human Rights Council is likely to request that former Icelandic foreign minister Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir head up an investigation into the Israeli attack on Gaza-bound aid ships. Read the full story

Iceland has grounds for cutting diplomatic ties with Israel, according to a parliamentary committee which met yesterday. Read the full story