The Israeli Navy attacked the MV Finch, an aid vessel bound for the Gaza Strip today, preventing the vessel from delivering a supply of plastic sewage pipes to the besieged enclave and forcing it to flee to Egypt.
The ship was a Moldovan-flagged ship carrying aid from Malaysia. Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad was on board at the time of the incident. No one was reported injured.
The exact circumstances, however, appear to be in dispute, even internally among Israeli officials. IDF spokesmen initially said the navy fired on the ship to keep it away from Gaza, but the Israeli Navy later denied that any shots were fired.
Journalists on board the ship confirmed that shots were fired, but none hit the vessel. Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh condemned the attack as “piracy.” The Israeli government has blockaded Gaza for years, barring broad types of humanitarian and construction aid as “dual use.”
Crime against humanity by Israel will go on until US and EU have come to their senses and boycott Israel.., I mean totally in terms of Economically and politically and by all other means necessary.., this is the only language that Israel ever understand.
No condemnation of the aid ship by the white house yet. What's hapening? Too busy in af/Pak,Irak,Libya,Yemen,Bahrain……..
Israel don't want pease they want all the Palistinians dead and then they will continue there genocide untill the hole mid east is dead.They think people around the world are against a Jewish state not so if the acted like humans.Is there a black state an Indian state or even a Palistinian state NO so consider youselfs lucky.Most people want pease but thats impossible when peoples friends and familys are being killed like cattel.I'm sick of Israel talking about the peace treatys when thats the last thing they would let happen.If they thought the world would turn a blind eye like the US and Britan they would kill every one in not just Palastine but the entire mid east.The world sees through your lies and blood thurst.Real Jews not NEOCONS don't belive Jesus is there savior and untill the savior comes you are supposed to not have a Jewish state that what real religious rabbis say is the true teaching of the Tora so don't expect us to let you hide behind a religion you don't even follow.
I agree with everything but the religious b.s., religion is at the root of the problem, not the solution!
Terrarists don't deserve plastic piping. They could build potato guns with them.
Humanitarian relief ships should always go in convoys. This ship should have joined the armada which is due to sail for GAZA next month (June). The more ships that are joining the convoy the better the chances they will get through. It is silly to send just a single vessel that has no chance whatever against heavily armed Israeli bandits. Israeli denials are rubberstamped stereotypes and have no meaning.
And after the walls of Jericho fell – the army of Israel entered that city and killed every man, woman, child, and livestock – then went on to the next city and did the same – as detailed by the writers of the Old Testament.
So – why are we surprised by anything that the gangsters in Israel do today?
Yes, of course- why didn't we see it sooner? Of course Gaza can't have plastic pipes- Israel is definitely quaking of a threat from terrorist water treatment! Next thing you know, that rascally Hamas will be trying construct modern purification systems and then- horror of horrors- they might actually deliver clean water to Gaza and Palestine. Sadly, though, since some REAL terrorists are bound to drink water at some point (in the Middle Eastern heat- who could imagine that!) naturally clean water has to be classified by the Israelis as 'dual use' and therefore subject to sanctions.
I am so disgusted by Israel these days I want to throw up; even more so because the US government- MY government- just rubber-stamps anything and everything Tel Aviv tells it to.
Evil state is evil- whether its flag bears a Star of David or a swastika, the result is the same.
Jamie- should have said "USA don't want pease they want all the Palistinians dead and then they will continue there genocide untill the hole mid east is dead'
USA/UK created ( $$$$ Bribed 45 UN nations 1947) Israel for the sole purpose to control the middle east oil.Israel is actually a pravate run USA military outpost and status makes USA unaccountable at the UN. Sad part is that most are hardcore J'Russians :^/
Again Israel attacks on international waters. Yesterday the IDF shot dead 20 Palistinian for getting too close to a fence which might be the border then again it might not be the border of Israel. The IDF was behind a fence so they were in no danger of being hit by the rocks. The crowd did not have the ability to knock down the fence and even if they did what damage would have been done since there was no building in the area. The woman and children were shot on Lebanonese land which the IDF entered last year to cut down the trees. It is ok according to Israel to cross into Lebanon and cut down trees but it is death to anyone walking near the fence. It is a death sentence to ride in a boat on international waters. It is interesting to listen to the tears when rockets are shot into land stolen by the Israel around Gaza. They cry about how they lose sleep over the rockets but they state that they are living on land which they stole in a war that Israel stated.
Why we send money to Israel is very difficult to understand so it must be the behind the public view as to what really is going on.
Not one word in the Western media about Israeli troops killing 22 people yesterday though they went on and on about Syria and Libya. NPR actually skirted the issue by claiming that Syria was behind the protests to 'divert attention'. I think NPR is doing the diverting.
The 2012 follies have already started with the Presidential hopefuls beginning their campaign in Israel long before they hit Iowa. Therefore, the Israelis know that there will definitely be no pressure coming from the United States to force them to abandon their lawless behavior. And no one understood this more than George Mitchell.
last night the BBC spent 10mins ranting about the IMF 'rapist' and then followed with about 1 minute of drivel of about how Israeli military had to shoot protesters in someone else's country but presented as happening at Israel's border… and today, no mention of the incident at all… and practially no mention of the incident on the front page of any newspaper.
First rule of propaganda is… 'if something happens that you dont want the puplic to dwell on (like Israeli soldiers shooting unarmed protesters who weren't even on Israeli soil)… then just don't report it'…