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 can [...]
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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 [...]
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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: ********************** 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 [...]
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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. [...]
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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. [...]
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Posted on June 1st, 2010 by Marian Houk
Shock is setting in, a day after the Israeli interception of the Freedom Flotilla at sea in the eastern Mediterranean on Monday morning. The IDF still has not released names or numbers of those who were killed, injured, or detained yesterday. Israeli reports now say that the IDF has confirmed that there were “more than” [...]
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Posted on May 30th, 2010 by Marian Houk
The reports began to come in at first light. Israeli naval commandos stormed the Freedom Flotilla at sea. There were some reported deaths on board, and many casualties. At least 50 persons have been admitted to Rambam hospital in Haifa. The Jerusalem Post is reporting that Israeli Army Radio (the most popular radio station in [...]
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Posted on May 30th, 2010 by Marian Houk
PRESS TV has just reported, in a live stand-up from on board the Freedom Flotilla’s Mavi Marmara — a passenger ship now sailing toward Gaza with some 600 or more passengers– that Israel has announced an increase in its declared maritime no-go zone to 48 miles off the coast of Gaza. Other reports indicate that [...]
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Posted on May 30th, 2010 by Marian Houk
After some confusing statements Saturday evening – possibly deliberately misleading – the Freedom Flotilla is moving towards what will almost certainly be a confrontation somewhere in the eastern Mediterranean with Israeli Naval forces that the Israeli Government has ordered to stop the Flotilla. Israel still has time to change its mind, however. But, it has [...]
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Posted on May 29th, 2010 by Marian Houk
In late June 2009, the last Free Gaza expedition, composed of only one ship, the Spirit, was intercepted by the Israeli Navy at the point shown on the graphic below, very kindly and obligingly prepared by Aletheia Kallos: [A note of caution from AK: "the geodetic datums for the several pushpin positions are unknown & [...]
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