The Israeli Navy was dispatched Tuesday to stop a boat which departed the Gaza Strip, and which was carrying injured Palestinian civilians. The boat intended to take the injured civilians from border protests to Cyprus for medical treatment.
The Navy stopped the boat, surrounding it and towing it to an Israeli naval base at Ashdod. The military’s statement claimed that injured people on board are being treated by the Israeli military’s medical personnel.
The military statement condemned Hamas, claiming the group was behind the “provocation on sea,” and was trying to “take advantage of injured and handicapped people.” Not mentioned in the statement was that the wounded Palestinians were wounded by Israeli crackdowns on protests.
Israeli officials are arguing that the capture of the ship was legal because they consider their naval blockade of the Gaza Strip legal. Putting aside that question, the blockade was imposed to try to prevent ships reaching Gaza with goods, and is now being interpreted as forbidding people from fleeing the strip, even just to receive medical treatment.
More like Third Reich than most.moral military on planet……..!!!!!
Israel wont let them out because they don’t want anyone returning to claim their rights. They want to erase Palestine and Palestinians from existence. This is an extermination.
A genocide
Israel is the most morally reprehensible country on Earth. It is a constant irritation to me to have to live in a country so corrupt that it assists these monsters in their nasty genocide of the rightful inhabitants of that land. Surely, Israel will someday meet up with the karma it has accumulated.
We don’t assist Israel, we do its bidding.
The blockade has always prevented leaving, and prevented exports. Israel even destroyed the business of exporting flowers to Europe.
The Zionist entity is pure evil. Zionists are the Children of Satan. Zionists control Washington. Americans lost control of their country long ago, if they ever did control it. Americans must be free. When they are free Washington will be gone and with it the empire and its vassals. The Zionist entity will cease to exist. Without Washington, “Poof!” The world will be a better place.
trump is their guard dog
Oh, good, Israel is catching on any maybe will stop wounding people for Hamas to take advantage of?
Data on the effect of Israeli fire is sometimes useful trivia in evaluating weapons systems, so one can see Israel’s interest in treating the wounded themselves.