{"id":349,"date":"2010-05-28T09:37:37","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T09:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=349"},"modified":"2010-05-28T09:37:37","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T09:37:37","slug":"israel-to-stop-gaza-aid-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/05\/28\/349\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel to stop Gaza aid ships"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"qaza-police\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/qaza-police.jpg\" width=\"256\" height=\"178\" \/>Israel says it will prevent, if necessary by force, a nine-ship flotilla of peace activists and humanitarian aid from reaching the Gaza Strip.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Freedom Flotilla is carrying around 700 pro-Palestinian activists from various countries, as well as 10,000 tonnes of aid.<br \/>It is by far the largest fleet of aid to try to reach Gaza since Israel imposed its siege on the coastal territory in 2007.<br \/>In accordance with the directions of the Israeli government, the Israel army and the Israeli navy are preparing to prevent the flotilla from reaching the Gaza shore,&#8221; a military source said on Thursday.<br \/>The Israeli army also took journalists on a tour of a detention centre being prepared at Ashdod port for holding the aid activists.<br \/>Ma\u2019ariv, an Israeli newspaper, said preparations were being made to provide the detainees with food, drink and medical treatment.<br \/>The paper said that Israelis on board would be arrested, Palestinians would be questioned by the Israeli secret service, and foreign nationals would be sent back to their countries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Message to Israel&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hanin Zuabi, a member of the Israeli parliament who is on board the flotilla, told Al Jazeera that the activists intend to reach Gaza regardless of plans to stop them.<br \/>&#8220;If the Israelis try to stop us, this will be a huge diplomatic and political crises for them,&#8221; Zuabi said.<br \/>&#8220;We have 50 states participating in this and are sending a very clear message to Israel &#8211; the international community is not accepting the siege on Gaza.&#8221;<br \/>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Jamal Elshayyal, on board the flotilla, said the activists travelling in the convoy included European parliamentarians, former US diplomats and Nobel peace laureates.<br \/>Organisers of the aid fleet said that they will ignore Israeli threats and head straight for Gaza&#8217;s shores.<br \/>Three ships are from Turkey, two from the UK and one each from Ireland, Greece, Kuwait and Algeria.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;PR disaster&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Israel should not be under any illusion whatsoever that their threats or intimidation will stop us or even that their violence against us will stop us,&#8221; Huwaida Arraf, from the Free Gaza Movement, said.<br \/>Some Israeli officials see this as a disastrous public-relations situation.<br \/>&#8220;We can&#8217;t win on this one in terms of PR,&#8221; Yigal Palmor, a foreign ministry spokesman, said.<br \/>&#8220;If we let them throw egg at us, we appear stupid with egg on our face. 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