'Palestinians': Israel fired on Gaza patrol boat
The 'Palestinian' agency Maan is reporting that Israeli forces fired upon a 'third party international monitor' ship off the coast of Gaza. No one was hurt, This story has not been reported in Israel and the IDF told Maan it knows nothing about it. Israeli naval forces attacked an international third party monitor on Wednesday in Gazan territorial waters.I'm not aware of any 'third party international monitor' that is authorized to patrol off the coast of Gaza. There's a naval blockade of Gaza. The United Nations has officially concluded that blockade is legal (the announcement is to be made later Thursday). I can't say whether this story really happened, but if it did, the people on this boat brought it on themselves.
Civil Peace Service Gaza works as part of a non-violent initiative to monitor human rights abuses in Gaza.
Israeli forces fired at the CPS Gaza monitoring boat, the Oliva, with water cannons on Wednesday at 12.05 p.m local time, a statement by the organization said.
There were four people aboard at the time, two CPS Gaza members, the captain and a journalist.
"We were fewer than two miles away from the Gaza coast when they fired at us. We saw them firing water at some fishing boats so we headed to the area. When we got close, the warships left the fishing boats, and turned on us.
"They attacked us for about ten minutes, following us as we tried to head to shore and eventually lagged when we reached about one mile off the Gaza coast," British human rights worker Ruqaya Al-Samarrai said.
A fishing boat was also fired at and damaged with live rounds.
An Israeli army spokesman said he was unaware of the incident.
Labels: Gaza, naval blockade
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:45 PM
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http://mondoweiss.net/2011/07/international-solidarity-boat-crew-attacked-off-gaza-coast.html
sorry to link to the jew hate site, but as you can see, the coast guard (labeled a war ship) did nothing more than give these filthy animals a shower
they are not a registered ngo...i would say that they are running interference...the boats around them dont look like fishing vessels to me
amazing how many euro trash are able to get into the worlds largest open air prison
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