Israel onderschept 'Women’s Boat to Gaza'

Israel intercepts Women’s Boat to Gaza

Nora Barrows-Friedman Rights and Accountability 5 October 2016

 

Israeli forces intercepted a boat carrying women solidarity activists as it was approximately 40 miles from Gaza’s shore on Wednesday.
Israel said its navy escorted the vessel ashore and that the takeover was brief and “uneventful.”
“The Israeli military said the navy carried out the raid ‘after exhausting all diplomatic channels,’” the Associated Press reported. “It said forces ordered the boat to change course, and when it refused, they boarded and searched it.”
The single-vessel Women’s Boat to Gaza, which set out from Sicily last week, was carrying 13 women activists in a symbolic attempt to break Israel’s naval blockade on the Gaza Strip.
Its passengers included Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire and Ann Wright, a former US Army colonel and State Department official.

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