Israeli Warships Intercept Gaza-Bound Aid Boats
No deaths or injuries were reported and the boats and the activists aboard them were rerouted to an Israeli port
The Israeli navy has boarded the two Gaza-bound aid ships carrying activists and humanitarian supplies, foiling the latest attempt to bring much needed assistance to the people of Gaza.
The aid ships ignored demands by Israel to reroute away from Gaza to an Israeli port and when the vessels were between 40 and 60 miles off the coast, they were intercepted by Israeli war ships. No one was hurt in the Israeli operation to capture and reroute the aid ships.
“Following their unwillingness to co-operate, and after ignoring calls to divert to the port of Ashdod, the decision was made to board the vessels and lead them there,” the military said in a statement.
Upon arrival in the port of Ashdod, the activists are to be transferred to the custody of the Israeli police and immigration authorities, the military statement said.
Fortunately, this latest attempt to break the Israeli siege on Gaza did not end in death for the peaceful activists aboard. In fact, some viewed it as a victory. ”It will still bring attention to the situation in Gaza, and the blockade of the Gaza Strip,” on activist said.
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paulBass
November 4th, 2011 at 10:14 am
we demand you enter isreal's port!
now we are going to charge you with illegally entering israel
camus10
November 4th, 2011 at 6:53 pm
what happened to Turkish promise to escort
Emilyrose
November 5th, 2011 at 4:18 am
More piracy on the high seas.
It seems Israel has much in common with the Somali pirates.
More bloodlusting, vicious, greedy and violent than the Somali's and active around the planet particularly in financial circles but the trend of hijack, murder and blackmail is much the same.
Oscar
November 5th, 2011 at 10:46 am
To Emilyrose and the other useful idiots: The Somali pirates kidnap foreigners from Kenyan territory or international waters and kill them or let them die from medical neglect, then demand ransom for their bodies. The Israelis grant entry into Israel to dozens of Gazans every month for free medical care. Shipments of goods go from Israel to Gaza every week and at the same time, rockets are fired from Gaza at Israeli cities. Israel supplies Gaza with 70% of its electricity. The Israelis are perfectly happy to transship goods to Gaza AFTER they are inspected for weapons. The Hamas rulers of Gaza have the official policy of the destruction of Israel and the expulsion of Jews from the region. The Israeli policy is "you don't shoot at us and we won't shoot back at you."
Oscar
November 5th, 2011 at 11:30 am
To Emilyrose and the other useful idiots: The Somali pirates kidnap foreigners from Kenyan territory or international waters and kill them or let them die from medical neglect, then demand ransom for their bodies. The Israelis grant entry into Israel to dozens of Gazans every month for free medical care. Shipments of goods go from Israel to Gaza every week and at the same time, rockets are fired from Gaza at Israeli cities. Israel supplies Gaza with 70% of its electricity. The Israelis are perfectly happy to transship goods to Gaza AFTER they are inspected for weapons. The Hamas rulers of Gaza have the official policy of the destruction of Israel and the expulsion of Jews from the region. The Israeli policy is "you don't shoot at us and we won't shoot back at you."
Oscar
November 5th, 2011 at 6:04 pm
Apologies for the accidental double post.
John Ellis
November 6th, 2011 at 12:43 pm
OSCAR FICTION
DARKNESS
“The Israelis are perfectly happy to transship goods to Gaza AFTER they are inspected for weapons.”
LIGHT
The slaves of dictator Israel would be perfectly happy to transport all goods to Israel after they inspect them for nuclear weapons, white phosphorous artillery shells, war materials containing high density radio active elements, cluster bombs, etc;.
DARKNESS
“The Hamas rulers of Gaza have the official policy of the destruction of Israel and the expulsion of Jews from the region.”
LIGHT
The twelve super rich families that rule Israel by an economical dictatorship, they have a 63 year unending policy of a Palestine holocaust, Muslim genocide and death to all Arabs by ethnic cleansing.
DARKNESS
“The Israeli policy is — you don’t shoot at us and we won’t shoot back at you.”
LIGHT
The Palestine policy is — if dictator Israel has the right of self-defense, then all slavery is legal, all land belongs to the nations most deadly, and the Western world is a paradise for dictators.
John Ellis
November 6th, 2011 at 3:53 pm
The net effect of this encounter now shows the world just how new, improved and most non-violent Israel is in the way it handles activists and their naughty “provocations.”
Non-violent resistance? Not hardly, how about passive solidarity most friendly while collaborating with the enemy.
Could they not at least have put up one strand of barbwire and sprinkled water on the deck to show some displeasure for the intrusion? For is not a best description for non-violent active resistance the battle cry,
“Dam the torpedoes!… Full speed ahead!”
Jim
November 6th, 2011 at 6:11 pm
To Oscar and his likes: you know you and people like you can say whatever you want and nobody will believe one thing you say….because they have been fooled for too long. You guys are the biggest liars in the world and you wouldn't even believe what you say yourself. One big example is your liar prime minister, who keeps saying Israel is for peace and for a two-state solution, but at the same time, and year after year, Israel keeps taking Palestinian land and imprisoning Palestinians in the biggest concentration camp in the world called Gaza . Anyone can see there is not a shred of sincerity in his claim for wanting peace!