Under mounting international pressure Israel is forced to release today the 680 they are holding. Yesterday Israel's envoy to the UN Human Rights Council, based in Geneva, accused the humanitarian activists of being 'linked to terrorists' in a desperate attempt to justify the murders.
Israel has begun deporting the first batch of foreign activists seized aboard a six-ship humanitarian aid flotilla seized in an Israel Navy raid en route to the Gaza Strip, the Foreign Ministry said early Wednesday, indicating that the rest of the activists will be escorted out of the country throughout the day.
The decision to deport the hundreds of foreign activists was announced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided late Tuesday, in the face of mounting world criticism of Monday's assault. more
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