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Titolo: Activists on Gaza-bound vessels detained

Activists on Gaza-bound vessels detained
 
Pro-Palestinian activists on board two boats intercepted by Israeli navy 
held in detention centre near Tel Aviv.
 
Last Modified: 05 Nov 2011 18:53
 
Israeli authorities have detained pro-Palestinian activists on board two 
"Freedom Waves to Gaza" vessels, foiling the latest attempt to break the 
four-year Israeli blockade of the territory.
 
The ships were forced to sail into the Israeli port of Ashdod, where all 
27 passengers were handed over to the authorities and taken to an 
Israeli detention facility near Tel Aviv.
 
Al Jazeera's Casey Kauffman was among a group of journalists arrested 
late Friday when the Israeli navy boarded two ships sailing toward Gaza, 
he has since been released.
 
"The first two or three [Israeli navy personnel] that came on board were 
very aggressive," Kauffman said on Saturday.
 
"There were taser guns and water cannons used but once they were on 
board they realised there were non-violent activists and they had the 
ship under control.
 
"At that point everything calmed down."
 
The Canadian vessel Tahrir and the Irish boat MV Saoirse were in 
international waters, between 64km to 96km off the Gaza coast, when they 
were intercepted and forced to head instead towards the southern city of 
Ashdod.
 
Once the vessels carrying activists, journalists and crew members from 
nine countries reached Ashdod, they were transferred to the custody of 
the Israeli police and immigration authorities.
 
They were to be held at the detention facility before being transported 
to an airport near Tel Aviv to be put on flights home.
 
The Israeli authorities said those who refuse to leave the country 
voluntarily would have access to a lawyer and 72 hours to appeal being 
sent home.
 
'Victory'
 
The Israeli military said the two vessels were boarded peacefully after 
numerous calls to the activists to turn around.
 
"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.
 
In a press release issued by organisers shortly after they said they had 
lost contact with the two boats, David Heap, a member of the steering 
committee on board the Tahrir, said the fact the boats had reached 
international waters was a "victory for the movement".
 
Both vessels were part of previous attempts to break the siege on the 
Gaza Strip that was stalled when the Greek government refused to let a 
flotilla leave from its shores in July this year.
 
"We are closer to Gaza this time, and hope to get even closer the next 
time, until we reach our destination," said Heap.
 
"Despite economic blackmail, despite the previous outsourcing of the 
blockade to Greece, and despite Israel mobilising a significant portion 
of its navy to stop us, we are now even closer to reaching Gaza and 
breaking the blockade."
 
'Freedom waves'
 
Al Jazeera's Nicole Johnston, reporting from the port of Ashdod, noted 
Friday's events as "another failed attempt for the season of flotillas 
to Gaza".
 
"This attempt was a lot quiter. It left on Wednesday from Turkey. There 
was no great fanfare with it, but again it didn't succeed in getting 
past the Israeli navy, and achieving its aim which was to symbolically 
break this four-year siege on Gaza," she said.
 
The two vessels left the port of Fethiye in southwest Turkey on 
Wednesday after Turkish authorities gave them permission to sail to the 
Greek island of Rhodes.
 
Early on Thursday morning, Kauffman reported that the activists viewed 
their attempt more as an expression of solidarity with besieged Gazans 
rather than an attempt to deliver aid.
 
"It will still bring attention to the situation in Gaza, and the 
blockade of the Gaza Strip," he said.
 
Sailing under the flag of the Comoros Islands, the Tahrir was carrying 
six activists, a captain and five journalists, including Al Jazeera's 
Kauffman.
 
The Saoirse - sailing under the US flag but carrying mostly Irish 
nationals - has 15 passengers on board, none of whom were journalists.
 
Heap told Al Jazeera that the activists chose to leave from Fethiye 
because of the strained relations between Turkey and Israel.
 
"The Turkish government has been creating more distance from Israel 
diplomatically and we know there is support from Turkish society for 
what we are doing.
 
"Our judgment was that the Turkish state would not interfere with us if 
we didn’t make too much of a public issue of our plan to depart from 
there," Heap told Al Jazeera.
 
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/11/2011115446073214.html
 
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Sostieni Rete ECO
 
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 four-year Israeli blockade of the territory.
 
Peccato nessuno abbia accettato la scommessa.
 
 
 
-- 
Quando ti incontro per la strada ti darei calci nei denti. Ma forse non 
li senti.
E' meglio se ti rullo di kartoni (kartoni).

 'Victory'
 
http://youtu.be/UXtC6KeFVP8
 
 

 Peccato nessuno abbia accettato la scommessa.
 
http://youtu.be/Y5CsGViY5JQ
 

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soppa che buzzurri che si devono sorbire le jeunes filles sioniste

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Magari c'e` speranza che te la diano.

 Peccato nessuno abbia accettato la scommessa.
 
L'unico danno che questi capelloni comunisti navali possono fare ad IL
è il seguente: se la Marina Israeliana continua a doverli raccattare
in mare, potrebbe perdere professionalità in altri e più essenziali
campi del combattimento navale...

Il 06/11/11 07:38, Federico Antola ha scritto:
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Anche la pietà per gli imbecilli alla deriva fa parte dell'etica IDF
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ma proprio magari.

 Anche la pietà per gli imbecilli alla deriva fa parte dell'etica IDF
 
E' in effetti prova di grande bontà...