Israel: On Ground Updates - Gaza Flotilla
Turkey to take Israel to UN Court
Saturday, September 03, 2011
Snapshot taken from video footage by IDF showing an Israeli soldier being beaten with an iron pipe during the Gaza flotilla raid (May 31, 2010)
* BBC NEWS brings us the following report this Saturday afternoon and it starts off like this… Turkey has said it will challenge Israel's blockade of Gaza at the International Court of Justice, (ICJ)… It is the latest sign of strain between the countries since last year's Israeli action against ships heading for Gaza, in which nine Turks were killed… Foreign Minister Ahmed Davutoglu said Turkey did not accept the findings of a UN report which said Israel's blockade of Gaza was a legal security measure… His comments came a day after Turkey expelled the Israeli ambassador… It also halted military co-operation with Israel…
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* CNN has this take on today’s news out of Israel and it starts off like this… An Israeli official Saturday dismissed as "strange" Turkey's actions, including its decision to expel Israel's ambassador, saying on Israeli television that his government "did well not to apologize" for a deadly raid last year on a Gaza-bound ship… Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon told CNN affiliate Channel 2 that "the entire fashion in which the Turks have acted is strange."… "Israel must not subject its foreign policy to caprices of others," he added. "The lack of cooperation does not hurt us alone, it damages the Turks as well."…
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