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Live coverage - Gaza aid flotilla massacre

22:12 GMT freegazaorg Countries calling Israel for explanation about attacking us Greece, Sweden, France, Austria, Spain, TurkeyCondemnation from China and Russia

http://mobile.twitter.com/freegazaorg#freegazaorg Call the State Department 202 647 4000 and ask them what they are going to do about this attack and the American flagged boat


19:51 GMT UK Foreign Secretary Hague has failed to condemn the massacre, calling instead for further 'investigation'. No mention of the fact that this was a military assault in international waters by one of the mightiest military machines on the planet. A state armed to the teeth with a license to kill by the US (and shamefully the EU and UK too) that has killed at least 19 civilians delivering aid to a people blockaded and bombed by a government and state with a colonial imperative. And by the scenes at the quayside at Ashdod of Palestinian women who live inside Israel (Arab Israelis) being racially abuse by a nascent lynch mob, this colonial mindset is increasingly nourished by a growing and deep anti-Arab racism among Israeli Jews. But among increasing numbers of Jewish people in the west, the crimes of Israel are unbearable. Which is why many of the leaders of the Gaza convoy are American Jews. This was Israel's Soweto. The naked barbarity played out over the past few hours puts on display to the world the logic of the Zionist project in Palestine - you can't steal a people's land without dehumanizing and killing them. Israel must be made to pay the price so that all the tens of thousands that have died in the cause of Palestinian liberation haven't done so in vain.

15:11 GMT - 5000 on spontaneous march against Israel's terrorism

13.08 GMT
RT @freegazaorg Call the Israeli Foreign office and INSIST that they tell us who has been killed and wounded and where our prisoners are.

Several hundred on Whitehall outside Downing Street. Taken the road - all traffic stopped.

12.28 GMT
RT @georgegalloway Israel has just announced that it will prosecute the convoy members who "attacked" its soldiers #gaza #FreedomFlotilla

11.32 GMT MUST WATCH VIDEOS #Gaza #flotilla massacre. http://bit.ly/cPntuS @PalestineVideo DEMONSTRATE TODAY Downing St London 2pm. To al the visitors to this blog from McLean Virginia USA over the past few weeks (an 'upscale' community of top government officials and assorted very rich people and spies), we hope you are happy with your work.



11.18 GMT
Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat says it's a "war crime".

From Twitter - freegazaorg SM Media Office: Physicians for Human Rights sending doctors to Rambam to help and intervene if necessary #Flotilla

11.11 GMT Understatement of the day so far goes to our Con-Dem friends at the Guardian: Flotilla interception will set Israel back in Arab and Turkish eyes

10.52 GMT Sweden, Turkey and Spain recall ambassadors. Still no statement from UK government let alone action. Customs officials from Turkish port of Anatolia say all passengers screened. Definitely no weapons, not that anyone believes Israel's lies. www.todayszaman.com

10.09 GMT All the boats are now in Israeli port of Ashdod. Crew and psssengers surrounded by riot police.

9.38 GMT Arab League calls emergency meeting on Gaza aid ship massacre. Let's hope they do more than just talk this time.


9.32 GMT From Swedish English language site - World in shock after deadly Gaza ship raid

9.29 GMT The Palestinian Authority and Hamas have condemned the massacre:
The Hamas government held an emergency meeting chaired by premier Ismail Haneya, following the Israeli Television Channel 10 report that 16 activists on the ships were killed and 30 wounded, including the Israeli-Arab Islamic activist Sheikh Raed Sallah.

Ismail Haneya, the premier of Hamas government told reporters in Gaza that the Israeli attack on the ships is a "brutal attack," calling on the international community, mainly the United Nations to move as quickly as possible to protect the ships and the activists and to end the blockade."

Meanwhile, the Hamas-government committee to challenge the Israeli siege said in a statement sent to reporters that it considers the activists, who were killed "as the martyrs of the Freedom Flotilla, adding that "the world should put an end to the biggest country of pirates (Israel)."

"The attack on the ships is an international crime and a political scandal carried out according to an Israeli military order. I call on the Palestinian Authority to immediately suspend its negotiations with Israel," Haneya told reporters. more


9.19 GMT Ayalon, Israel's foreign minister, calls peaceful humanitarians, including one holocaust survivor, 'terrorists'. No one is going to believe a word from this terrorist state, except the rulers of western countries perhaps.

Al-Jazzera report - Israeli massacres go international. Gaza Solidarity will be reporting live from the emergency protest at Downing Street today, where, among other things, we will be demanding the immediate expulsion of the Israeli ambassador.

This was a major international mission including a large number of western activists but no major UK media outlet bothered to cover the progress of the flotilla (except the Guardian to some extent) or to 'embed' a reporter.

Comments

  1. check your sources, your "facts" are so hopelessly incorrect, number of dead being one of them. No wonder if you get you info from Al-Jazeera.

    BTW, when the infamous humanitaian aid finally arrived at Gaza, Hamas sent it away, how ironic isn't it?

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