Israeli navy attacks Gaza solidarity ship

[Thinking Man's Idiot]

Israeli navy attacks Gaza solidarity ship

(Tuesday 30 December 2008)



HUMANITARIANS: Free Gaza Movement ship Dignity arriving at the Lebanese port of Tyre en route to Gaza.

ISRAELI gunboats rammed a boat carrying solidarity activists and medical supplies to Gaza in international waters on Tuesday, forcing it to sail back to Lebanon.

The Free Gaza Movement (FGM) ship Dignity was about 90 miles off the coast of Gaza when 11 Israeli naval ships surrounded it.


Organiser and FGM founder Paul Larudee said that the Israeli ships had "ordered the boat to stop and we didn't. They began firing over our boat and one of the naval vessels rammed us."


When the Dignity began to take on water, FGM activists decided to turn back.


Cypriot Foreign Minister Markos Kyprianou said that his country will lodge a formal protest over Israel's ramming of the boat.


The 66-foot yacht left Larnaca on Monday with almost four tons of Cypriot-donated supplies and 16 passengers, including former US representative Cynthia McKinney, Cypriot MP and surgeon Eleni Theocharous and activists and doctors from Britain, Australia, Ireland and Tunisia.


The FGM explained that the Dignity had been on a "mission of mercy" to Gaza, where over 385 Palestinians have been killed since Israel launched its air onslaught on Saturday.


According to the UN, 64 of these were civilians, but witnesses suggested that the true civilian casualty figure is far higher.


Tel Aviv has barred journalists from entering the Gaza Strip since November and it declared areas around the Gaza Strip a "closed military zone" on Monday.


The new policy means that civilians, including journalists, are barred from a buffer zone of two miles from Gaza.


Among the civilians killed on Tuesday were two sisters, aged four and 11.


And on Monday night, five Palestinian sisters were killed when an Israeli air strike hit their home in the densely populated Jabalya refugee camp.


Palestinian resistance fighters continued to fire home-made rockets at Israeli settlements yesterday, killing three Israeli civilians and a soldier.


The Israeli blitz comes on top of its blockade of Gaza that has kept all but essential goods from entering the coastal territory since June 2007.


Egypt, which has been blockading its border with the south of Gaza, has come under pressure from the rest of the Arab world to reopen the border crossing.


But Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said yesterday that his country would not open the crossing unless Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian Authority is in control of the border post.

[ZingPao]

That makes no sense. Why just ram it when the Israelis could have just sunk it? The Israelis are killers right? I'm thinking the captain of the boat was drunk.

[Thinking Man's Idiot]

That's right. He was seeing double and and there was only 5 and a half boats.

I think if they used weapons on a neutral ship in international waters they may just have even less friends in the world than they have right now. They are killers, but obviously not stupid killers.

[TEC3009]

Details of those responsible for complaints in the Terror State of Is - real:-



CALL Mark Regev in the Prime Minister's office at:
+972 2670 5354 or +972 5062 3264
mark.regev@it.pmo.gov.il

CALL Shlomo Dror in the Ministry of Defence at:
+972 33697 5339 or +972 50629 8148
mediasar@mod.gov.il

[TEC3009]

Power drunk - bro

The Fascist pigs are power drunk picking on a medical ship in international waters.

[Thinking Man's Idiot]

Originally Posted by TEC3009

Details of those responsible for complaints in the Terror State of Is - real:-



CALL Mark Regev in the Prime Minister's office at:
+972 2670 5354 or +972 5062 3264
mark.regev@it.pmo.gov.il

CALL Shlomo Dror in the Ministry of Defence at:
+972 33697 5339 or +972 50629 8148
mediasar@mod.gov.il

TEC, you're a fkn star mate. Welcome aboard.

The collision was so severe, Penhaul said, that the passengers were ordered to put on their life vests and be ready to get in lifeboats. The Dignity began taking on water, but the crew managed to pump it out of the hull long enough for the boat to reach shore.



http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/...oat/index.html

Originally Posted by Victor

The collision was so severe, Penhaul said, that the passengers were ordered to put on their life vests and be ready to get in lifeboats. The Dignity began taking on water, but the crew managed to pump it out of the hull long enough for the boat to reach shore.



http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/...oat/index.html

Sound familiar?
Only after the collision did the Israelis come on the radio to say they struck the boat because they believed it was involved in terrorist activities.

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