Posted on 12/30/2008 5:47:23 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Activists trying to bring aid to Gaza today claimed their boat had been rammed by Israeli gunboats in a "criminal attack" in international waters.
The Free Gaza Movement said its vessel, the Dignity, was intercepted by several Israeli vessels as it was heading to the Gaza Strip, which has been under Israeli aerial bombardment since Saturday.
One gunboat rammed the Dignity on the port bow side, causing heavy damage, although no one was hurt, the group said.
"[The Dignity] is taking on water and appears to have engine problems," the movement said on its website. "When attacked, the Dignity was clearly in international waters, 90 miles off the coast of Gaza.
"The gunboats also fired their machine guns into the water in an attempt to stop the mercy ship from getting to Gaza.
"Israel thumbs its nose in the face of maritime law by attacking a human rights boat in international waters and has put all of these human rights observers at risk.
"At no time was the Dignity ever close to Israeli waters. They clearly identified themselves and the Israeli attack was willful and criminal."
The group said the attack took place as the Dignity carried three tonnes of medical supplies at the request of doctors in Gaza.
The crew and passengers were hoping to treat some of those injured in four days of the Israeli air strikes, with hospitals in the territory overwhelmed.
The Dignity is still in international waters, 40 miles off Haifa, and is making its way slowly to Lebanon. The ship flies the flag of Gibraltar, is piloted by an English captain and its passenger list includes Cynthia McKinney, a former US congresswoman.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Blackwater?
The list of passsngers on the last voyage - the one with McNinney
http://www.freegaza.org/index.php?module=passengers&category=223
Dear, gawd........WHY was she not propelled from the craft and left in dangerous waters? OK. Just a juicy fantasy, here. ;)
Well, you could always call or write the Israeli Embassy. :)
Too bad the Israeli navy did not sink the lot of them.
My God that is a frightening picture. Who is this woman? She looks like she’s sat on the mains.
That is U.S. Representative Cynthia McKinney.
shes a US representative?
God you are in trouble...
She is mentioned in the article above. She is a jew-hating socialist.
She sounds (and looks) like the kind of harridan that clinches her arguments by asserting them very frequently and very, very loudly. It’s quite a clever pitch really. People believe there is no smoke without fire, so whether the arguments have any basis in truth, logic or sanity is really rather irrelevent.
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