The ‘humanitarian aid’ aboard a recent flotilla to Gaza fit in two cardboard boxes
Pro-Palestinian activists aboard a Swedish vessel tried and failed to
punch through Israel’s maritime blockade of Gaza this week. Israeli commandos boarded the vessel, searched the ship and brought it to an Israeli port.
The
Israeli military called the operation “uneventful.” According to a
report, Israel’s Channel 2, one of the activists was zapped with a taser. The foreign activists were detained and are being deported.
In the scope of Middle East confrontations, it was a minor, though publicized, affair.
Afterwards, Israel’s defense minister Moshe Yaalon said, “there was no aid on board” the activist ship.
Not necessarily so -- but pretty close. We checked. You decide.
Members
of the Gaza flotilla organization -- which sent four boats, three of
which turned around before arriving in the vicinity of Israel -- have
repeatedly said the vessel that was stopped, Marianne, was carrying humanitarian aid for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
A solar panel and nebulizer aboard the vessel Marianne.(photo provided by Freedom Flotilla Coalition)
