Juan Cole – www.juancole.com Israel faced a wave of global condemnation over its military assault on a humanitarian aid convoy in international waters. Everyone from the UN Secretary-General to the Pope came down hard on the Israeli government. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was constrained to cancel his planned visit to Washington, D.C., since that trip [...]
May 31, 2010 — As seen here Israeli Defense Forces storm the Flotilla and kill innocent people after throwing up white flags. It is reported there are over twenty dead, as you will see the IDF storming the ship via choppers and taking out innocent people.
Palestine Chronicle Staff Israel today stormed a flotilla of ships carrying aid to Gaza, killing up to 20 activists and injuring dozens. The ships, several of them Turkish, were carrying medical equipment and other aid on a mission to highlight the three-year-old Israeli blockade of the Palestinian territory. The attack took place 40 miles out [...]
Press Release 05/31/2010 Uri Avnery: this night a crime was perpetrated in the middle of the sea, by order of the government of Israel and the IDF Command A warlike attack against aid ships and deadly shooting at peace and humanitarian aid activists It is a crazy thing that only a government that crossed all [...]
Israeli forces have attacked the international aid convoy Freedom Flotilla en route to the besieged Gaza Strip, killing at least 10 people and leaving more than 50 injured. The attack came on Monday morning after one of the six ships in the convoy was hit by Israeli navy forces before being stormed by commandos descending [...]
KEVIN OVENDON REPORT’S LIVE FROM THE GAZA FLOTILLA! At 22:41pm tonight, preparations aboard the Mavi Marmara are extensive. We are 90 miles away from land – 22 miles further than the Israeli decided 68 mile exclusion zone – but are being approached by an Israeli vessel. Triage is set up and various strategies [...]
George Galloway founder of the worldwide Viva Palestina movement and leader of three land convoys which broke the siege on Gaza today hailed the heroic sea-borne aid effort steaming towards Gaza. Speaking from Miami Florida where he is in the middle of a twelve city speaking tour of the US on Palestine Galloway hailed the Turkish humanitarian [...]
Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home I am convinced more than ever that the end of Israeli apartheid is close. No other system in the world today exists with this much social pathology and spiteful anger. It is lashing out without much logic. But while they try to fragment our [...]
Palestine Monitor 29 May 2010 As the Freedom Flotilla steams toward the exclusion zone, the 800 passengers are guaranteed a hot reception. The nine boats carrying 10,000 tonnes of emergency aid will arrive in Gaza tomorrow, but statements from Israeli officials indicate the EU’s stated desire for a “constructive resolution” is wishful thinking. Image courtesy [...]
At 08.50 am today we are awaiting the arrival of the European parliamentarians, who begin to shuttle from Northern Cyprus to our staging ground in international waters to the south of the island where they will board the lead ship. The decision by the Greek Cypriot government not only not to allow the flotilla to [...]
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