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Dignite al Kamara
Dignite Al Kamara, a French yacht carrying pro-Palestinian activists, left the Greek waters on Sunday and is heading towards the Israeli waters in an attempt to breach the blockade imposed by the Jewish state and to reach the Gaza Strip, where it will deliver humanitarian aid.
The 17-passenger yacht declared before the Greek authorities that the Egyptian port of Alexandria was its destination, and so they were left to leave. The boat is said to represent the entire Freedom Flotilla, and to arrive in Gaza by Tuesday evening. The members said it was legal to change course in the international waters.
One of the passengers said that they would arrive in Gaza by noon Tuesday because they didn’t want to sail at night in the Israeli waters.
The Israeli government is trying its best to make sure no one breaches the blockade on Gaza, for that purpose using its diplomatic and political connections.
The first success was with Greece, where the entire flotilla was stopped by the Greek authorities in its national waters in what some people considered to be a grave infringement of the human rights.
Two of the vessels were turned back to their departure point because they had tried to leave the ports of Greece without authorization, and two others were said to have been sabotaged under water by Israeli operatives.
The deputy Israeli Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon announced that if the boat was heading toward Gaza, it will be intercepted, but he added that the IDF will make their best to make the search as comfortable as possible for its passengers.
Freedom Flotilla
Israel is to face at the U.N. a very unpleasant report on the incident in May last year, when nine Turkish nationals lost their lives in a standoff with the IDF.
The incident caused the relations between Turkey and Israel to be frozen, and two panels of inquiry were launched to assess what happened on Mavi Marmara that day.
The international panel led by former NZ prime minister Geoffrey Palmer issued in mid-September a report by which the conduct of the Israeli Defense Forces was deemed as cruel and brutal.
Israeli government slammed the report as anti-Semitic, and refused to recognize it, while Turkey expressed its satisfaction.
Turkish authorities demanded that the Israeli government present an apology, which Israel refused, consenting though to express sorrow for what happened on that vessel.
Accepting to apologize would be as much as recognizing that the Palmer report was right, and would cause, Israelis say, the international organizations to prosecute the Jewish soldiers involved in the incident.
Last week Turkey demanded again a formal apology, compensation for the people’s family and the termination of the Gaza blockade.
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