Posted on July 14th, 2010 by Marian Houk
A Libyan-chartered Greek ship flying the Moldovan flag and carrying 2,000 tons of food and medical supplies destined for Gaza has reportedly developed mechanical problems [in the engine? with communications devices?] overnight as it approached its declared destination of the Egyptian port of El-Arish.
Israeli warships are reportedly tracking the Amalthea. The Israeli Minister of [...]
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Posted on July 10th, 2010 by Marian Houk
Israeli Foreign Ministry officials told Haaretz that Minister Avigdor Lieberman has contacted the Greek and Moldovan Foreign Ministers, and asked them to stop a Moldovan-flagged cargo ship which intended to sail, imminently, from Greece to Gaza.
Reports indicated, Saturday evening, that the ship had just sailed.
The voyage for this ship from Greece to Gaza [...]
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Posted on July 3rd, 2010 by Marian Houk
Uri Avnery has written in his weekly article that the Gush Shalom movement he heads sees “no reason to withdraw our Supreme Court petition to disband the Turkel commission [appointed to look into the Israeli handling of the Freedom Flotilla on 31 May] and to appoint an official State Commission of Inquiry”.
According to Avnery:
“[T]he commission [...]
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Posted on June 29th, 2010 by Marian Houk
2010.05.07
On 7 May, the Turkish relief organization IHH posted these remarks on its website [in a post entitled "Israel Is Acting Like Pirates"]:
“Bulent Yildirim, President of IHH, said ‘If they harass the flotilla, what is left to separate the state of Israel from the pirates of Somalia?’ noting that the convoy will not even draw [...]
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Posted on June 29th, 2010 by Marian Houk
This statement, an IHH communication dated 31 May, is posted [still] on the IHH website.
It is entitled: “Crisis Furthers In the Mediterranean, Turkish Government Expected To Intervene”, and is posted here.
Here is the sub-title:
“Israeli assault boats are harassing the ships of the Freedom Flotilla, which are carrying humanitarian aid to Palestine. 6 ships are persistently [...]
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Posted on June 21st, 2010 by Marian Houk
According to my first morning sms, the Lebanese Transport Minister has told the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation that the two boats planning to sail to Gaza — the Lebanese Flotilla — have been given permits to go to Cyprus.
He indicated that it will then be up to Cyprus to decide if these Lebanese ships [...]
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Posted on June 8th, 2010 by Marian Houk
According to the news announced Monday night:
(1) Major-General [res.] Giora Eiland (an analyst at the Institute for National Security Studies, or INSS, in Tel Aviv) has been appointed by IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi to head an investigative team to “conduct an internal military investigation into the Israel Navy’s deadly raid of a humanitarian [...]
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Posted on June 3rd, 2010 by Marian Houk
DISCLAIMER: The views expressed below are not necessarily the same as mine.
This is an extended excerpt from wildly entertaining comments on a post on a blog:
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If the Gaza embargo is legal (I’m not an international law expert – it would be if Gaza were an independent state, but Gaza’s status is kind of sui generis [...]
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Posted on June 3rd, 2010 by Marian Houk
Israel has a new respect for international law.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it has to be said, led the way, with its legal background paper on Israel’s blockade of Gaza’s maritime space.
Today, the military has weighed in.
The Israeli Defense Force’s Military Advocate-General’s office has now published its own material on its website.
Among other things, the [...]
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Posted on June 1st, 2010 by Marian Houk
NO. 1/2009 Blockade of Gaza Strip
Tuesday, 06 January 2009 00:00
1. Subject: Blockade of Gaza Strip
2. Source : Israeli Navy
All mariners are advised that as of 03 January 2009, 1700 UTC, Gaza maritime area is closed to all maritime trafic [sic] and is under blockade imposed by Israeli Navy until further notice.
[n.b. - no further notice [...]
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