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Permalink Reply by truth on November 3, 2011 at 8:32am

‘Freedom Waves’ Set Sail for Gaza after Secret Preparations [VIDEO]

The “Tahrir” a Canadian boat is being joined by a second boat from Ireland which was kept secret until now. They are on a mission in an attempt to break Israel’s siege of Gaza.

Permalink Reply by truth on November 4, 2011 at 2:15pm

BREAKING NEWS: Urgent: Ships BOARDED by Israeli Navy

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Submitted by Jalal Abukhater on Fri, 11/04/2011 – 14:24

UPDATED (16:40 – 4 November 2011). PRESS RELEASE: Freedom Waves to Gaza – ‘FREEDOM WAVES TO GAZA BOARDED BY ISRAELI MILITARY’.
Canadian and Irish ships sailing with Freedom Waves to Gaza have been illegally boarded by the Israeli military in international waters a short while ago.

The Israeli military stated that “Upon arrival of the vessels at the Ashdod port, the activists will be transferred to the custody of the Israel Police and immigration authorities in the Ministry of Interior”.

Freedom Waves to Gaza organizers have been unable to communicate with the ships since soon after the vessels were approached by Israeli warships earlier this afternoon.

The Canadian boat ‘Tahrir’ (Liberation) confirmed that the Israeli navy had contacted them asking for their destination at around 13:00 (Gaza time) to which Ehab Lotayef, an activist on board the ship, replied ‘The conscience of humanity’. When the Israelis again demanded to know the destination of the ship Lotayef replied; ‘The betterment of mankind’. ’

Huwaida Arraf, spokesperson from Freedom Waves to Gaza, said “It’s clear that 27 civilians on two small boats, carrying only medicine, constituted no security threat to the Israeli state, and that the determination to keep them out is only a furtherance of Israel’s policy of collective punishment, a crime against humanity. Despite this Israeli aggression, we will keep coming, wave after wave, by air, sea, and land, to challenge Israel’s illegal policies towards Gaza and all of Palestine. Our movement will not stop or be stopped until Palestine is free.”

The Israeli military reported that the navy has been ordered by IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz to board the ships after “attempts to contact them failed.” The Israeli military has offered to unload the boats’ supplies at Ashdod, Israel.

Anatolia News Agency, Turkey, has reported that the boats were offered the choice to go to Egypt or return.

At 13:00 both ships were around 51 nautical miles from the coast of Gaza in international waters.

Permalink Reply by Charles Magus on November 4, 2011 at 3:48pm

Why doesn't NATO and the UN Stepped in to Attack Israel and free the Palestinian people?  Simple,  Israel bloody controls NATO and the UN!  They only attack harmless nations that have never harmed the west!  Israel is the most evil country on Earth and absolutely nothing is done to stop it!   It shows you just how much corruption of our nations has occurred if they jump to the call of Israel every single time!!  This must stop now!   Stop buying things that are made or produced in Israel, stop sending over 3 billion American Tax dollars a year to Israel!   People in the US are suffering and Israel is stealing all their money through its zionist politicians in Congress, its Eugenic Corporations like Monsanto, and through its fraudulant Banking system!  End Usury now!   Kill the FED and Don't vote for their Crooked Politicans!