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Was Israeli force against flotilla intentional?
Published: 02 June, 2010, 04:47
Edited: 05 June, 2010, 02:06
Israel, Haifa: Israeli soldiers stand guard in the northern port of Haifa as they monitor the evacuation of wounded comrades and activists in violent clashes when Israeli navy stormed a convoy of ships carrying hundreds of passengers and aid destined for the Gaza Strip on May 31, 2010. (AFP Photo / Ancho Gosh)
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Israel has blocked eight ships carrying 10,000 tons of aid and 800 activists and politicians on its way to Gaza by using military force and boarding ships in international waters.
Reports indicate that at least 9 activists were killed and about 40 injured when Israeli military forces boarded one of the ships and opened fire on its passengers and crew.
The Free Gaza Movement organized the aid flotilla with the hope of sending a message to the world that Israel has no right to starve 1.5 million Palestinians.
The Free Gaza Movement has been left unaware of the status of the prisoners Israel arrested onboard the ships.
“Our attorneys inside of Palestine right now have been trying for two days to get complete access to all of the prisoners that Israel took when they attacked our ships, and not successfully. Today for the first time we got access to about a third of the prisoners but only for about three hours,” said Ramzi Kysia, an activist with the Free Gaza Movement.
It is unclear what those being held will be charged with. In the past they have been charged with attempting to enter Israel illegally, however this time there was no intention for the aid workers to enter Israel.
The intentions behind the aid flotilla were to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza and draw further attention to the Israeli blockade.
It has been said that Israel said the Free Gaza Movement is one of the greatest threats to Israel.
“This is so overblown it’s unbelievable,” said Kysia.
All Free Gaza ships are inspected by local authority before they depart to combat accusations of this nature. The organization ensures a complete ship manifest is released, including the names of all passengers onboard. They also allow for continued online GPS tracking of the ships and invite international journalists to broadcast live from onboard to maintain the transparency.
In the past, Free Gaza Movement ships have reached Gaza five times and been stopped three. In none of the previous cases was there a loss of life.
“You have to begging to wonder whether this was intentional, whether there was a deliberate decision take to try and use as deadly force as they could to send a message not to allow any more flotillas to be organized,” said Kysia.
It is clear Israel did board the ship; however Israel contends they were provoked and threatened by the activists.
“This was a flotilla of unarmed ships carrying only humanitarian aid in international waters that had no intention of going anywhere near Israel,” said Kysia.
Kysia stated that there were no weapons onboard the ships and that the welcome an independent international investigation into the matter.
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Israel has intentionally used military force to intimidate the Palestinian people by killing the innocent. Israelis apparently have a blood doctrine that killing a few innocent Palestinian men, women and especially children, will keep the Palestinians terrified and under control. So in Israeli minds it was quite normal to storm the first ship, kill and maim some passengers and spread terror on other ships. Israeli spokesmen and spokeswomen are on all Western media channels spreading the lie that only one ship resisted and the rest complied "peacefully". What the Israelis don't tell is that their intention all along was to commit a massacre on the first ship so that the rest of the ships would be too terrified to resist. This Israeli blood doctrine is quite simple: kill a few innocents to keep the rest in line Israelis have been getting away with this blood doctrine of theirs ever since the state was formed because America protects them.
June 03, 2010, 09:09, Aleks wrote > Vladimir: > What makes the russians feel immune form their intentional genocide of the Chehcen population? Was the killing of some 200,000 Chehen men, women, and children by the Russian military intentional or was it an accident? ==================== American Indians, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Korean Peninsula, Vietnam, Serbia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and targeted assassinations of American citizens who do not follow the establishment's policy. Anglo-American alliance controlled by Israel is the greatest threat to humanity.
Israel offered to pass all aid goods via port of Ashdod and the crew declined it repeatedly even used bad language. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKOmLP4yHb4 If you have rockets landed daily on your head shut from Gaza by Hamas, wouldn't you inspect everything that is coming to Gaza. There was an Iranian shipment caught just last year with so many weapons. Iranian money is used to fund terrorism. If 5 million jews living in Israel would diappear as Hamas wants, then muslims (over few billions on this planet) will find another western target to deal with. Those people bring distruction, hatred, suicidal mission for Allah to become martyrdom. They haven't brough any contribution to science, medicine, technology but only use what west world created to destroy western civilization. They are lucky to have oil. But when crest is emptied they will destroy everything due to lack of resource.