Monday, June 27, 2011

New Gaza Flotilla Set to Sail - Israel Drops Threats to Journalist Joining Mission

Monday, June 27, 2011.

* JTA.org brings us the latest report out of Israel on all this New Gaza Flotilla mess and it starts off like this... Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered Israeli authorities to formulate a special procedure for journalists who are arrested on board the Gaza flotilla... The order Monday came a day after the head of Israel's Government Press Office threatened to deny entry to the country for ten years to any journalist who participates in the flotilla... Netanyahu said in a statement that the policy for journalists covering the flotilla should not be the same as against infiltrators and those who enter Israel illegally... Members of the Israeli media and international journalists will be embedded in Israeli Navy vessels in contact with the flotilla "in order to create transparency and credible coverage of the events," said a statement issued Monday from the Prime Minister's Office...
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* AhramOnline has this report posted up on their website earlier this Monday morning and it starts off like this... Pro-Palestinian activists from 22 countries plan to set sail in an international flotilla for Gaza from the coast of Crete on Thursday or Friday, organisers said Monday... “Thursday or Friday, nine or 10 boats should meet up in the Libyan Gulf,” Vaguelis Pissias, one of the Greek organisers of the flotilla, said at a press conference with representatives from the international organisations involved...
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* VOANews.com has this report...
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New Gaza Flotilla Set to Sail...
About above News Video: A flotilla carrying humanitarian aid bound for Gaza is set to depart from Greece. Israel has already warned that it won't let the convoy reach its destination. It was also said earlier that foreign journalists who took part would be banned from working in Israel for 10 years... though this was changed late Monday morning.
This Video posted on YouTube by RussiaToday
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