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  • Gaza flotilla activists were shot in head at close range
    7 June 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Exclusive: Nine Turkish men on board Mavi Marmara were shot a total of 30 times, autopsy results reveal
    Israel was tonight under pressure to allow an independent inquiry into its assault on the Gaza aid flotilla after autopsy results on the bodies of those killed, obtained by the Guardian, revealed they were peppered with 9mm bullets, many fired at close range.
    Nine Turkish men on board the Mavi Marmara were shot a total of 30 times and five were killed by gunshot wounds to the head, (…)

  • Jewish boat to Gaza soon sailing
    7 June 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Jewish Boat to Gaza is sailing soon In a harbour in the Mediterranean a small vessel is waiting for a special mission. She will be sailing to Gaza during the second half of July. In order to avoid sabotage, the exact date and name of the port of departure will be announced only shortly before her launch. « Our purpose is to call an end to the siege of Gaza, to this illegal collective punishment of the whole civilian population.
    Our boat is small, so our donations can only be symbolic: we (…)

  • Our deepest sympathies
    7 June 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Bianca Shaana
    In the dark, early hours of May 31, Israel launched a commando and navy attack on 6 unarmed civilian ships carrying humanitarian aid in the international waters of the Mediterranean sea, opening fire before they landed. These highly trained, professional soldiers killed and wounded tens of civilians, many of whom were on the Mavi Marmara, a boat owned by the Turkish charity, IHH (The Foundation for Human Rights & Freedoms & Humanitarian Relief).
    We in the Free (…)

  • Why the World must apply comprehensive Sanctions & Boycotts against Apartheid Israel & its supporters
    6 June 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Gaza Aid Flotilla Massacre underscores why the World must urgently apply comprehensive Sanctions and Boycotts against Apartheid Israel and its supporters to protect Humanity from the genocidal, nuclear terrorist state of Apartheid Israel - a race-based state that continues to violate International Law, International Human Rights Conventions, the UN General Assembly, the UN Security Council, the International Court of Justice, and indeed what Catholic theologians call the Natural Law. (…)

  • Israel Planned Killing of Aid Flotilla Activists
    6 June 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Istanbul, Jun 4 (Prensa Latina)
    The Foundation for Human Rights, Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (IHH), organizer of the aid flotilla attacked by Israel, presented new evidence on Friday that prove that Israeli intelligence services had chosen their targets prior to the assault.
    Israeli Attack to Humanitarian Caravan Condenmed The IHH president, Bülent Yildirim, accused Israel of taking advantage of the attack against the ship to carry out selective killing of members of the (…)

  • Israel Faces Deepening Tensions With Turkey Over Raid, and Bond With U.S. Frays
    5 June 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON — Tensions deepened between Turkey and Israel on Friday, and a new fissure threatened to open between the United States and Israel, as the three countries continued to deal with the fallout from Israel’s deadly raid on a humanitarian aid flotilla off Gaza.
    A senior Turkish diplomat warned that his country might sever diplomatic relations with Israel unless its government apologized for the attack, in which nine Turkish citizens were killed; consented to an international (…)

  • ISRAELI MILITARY FORCIBLY STOPS AID BOAT TO GAZA - AGAIN
    5 June 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    (Off the Gaza coast, 5 JUNE) - Just before 9am this morning, the Israeli military forcibly siezed the Irish-owned humanitarian relief ship, the MV Rachel Corrie, from delivering over 1000 tons of medical and construction supplies to besieged Gaza. For the second time in less then a week, Israeli naval commandos stormed an unarmed aid ship, brutally taking its passengers hostage and towing the ship toward Ashdod port in Southern Israel. It is not yet known whether any of the Rachel Corrie’s (…)

  • Israeli commando who shot six dead on ship may get ‘medal of valour’
    5 June 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Six of the nine activists killed in Monday’s raid on an aid convoy were shot by a single Israeli commando who is now being considered for a medal of valour.
    Israeli reports of the likely award for the soldier — credited with saving his injured comrades as passengers attacked them with clubs, knives and even the guns they had captured from the commandos — are expected to inflame the row with Turkey over the attack on the flotilla.
    Mustafa Akyol, a prominent political writer, described the (…)

  • Irish ship the Rachel Corrie is due to arrive in Gaza
    5 June 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Irish aid ship, MV Rachel Corrie, is expected to arrive in Gazan territorial waters at about 0900 local time (0600 BST) on Saturday.
    Israel’s foreign minister has said it will not be allowed to dock there and so far the crew have had no communication with the Israeli navy.
    Nine activists died on Monday when Israeli commandos stormed another vessel in the convoy.
    Nobel Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire is on board the Rachel Corrie.
    On Friday night the Irish Foreign Affairs (…)

  • From Klinghoffer to the Gaza Flotilla
    5 June 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    From Klinghoffer to the Gaza Flotilla
    by Yvonne Ridley (Friday, June 4, 2010)
    "...according to international law, the actions of the Israeli military were beyond the law and those involved should be treated no differently than, say, the Somali pirates who are also in the habit of boarding ships by force....Any rights to self defense in such dramatic circumstances rests purely with the passengers and crew on board. Under international maritime law you are legally entitled to resist (…)