[SonOfDarkSkies]

This just in from the Houston Cronicle/AP...

Egypt lifts its side of Gaza blockade for aid

An Egyptian official says the government is temporarily lifting its blockade of the Gaza Strip to allow aid into the area a day after Israel raided an international flotilla carrying supplies to the Palestinian territory and killed nine activists.

The governor of northern Sinai, Murad Muwafi, says President Hosni Mubarak ordered the opening of the border crossing to Gaza in the town of Rafah for several days.

Muwafi says the opening of the crossing — which Egypt sealed after Gaza was taken over by Hamas militants in 2007 — is an effort to "alleviate the suffering of our Palestinian brothers after the Israeli attack" on the flotilla.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Pro-Palestinian activists said Tuesday they had sent another boat to challenge the Gaza blockade as Israel faced outrage abroad and questions at home over its botched raid on an aid flotilla in international waters that ended with soldiers killing nine activists.

The raid provoked the most ferocious international condemnation of Israel since its war with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip a year and a half ago and appeared likely to increase pressure to end its blockade that has deepened the poverty of the 1.5 million Palestinians living in the strip. The U.N. Security Council condemned the "acts" that resulted in the deaths and called for an impartial investigation.

Greta Berlin of the Free Gaza Movement, which organized the flotilla, said another cargo boat was off the coast of Italy en route to Gaza. A second boat carrying about three dozen passengers is expected to join it, Berlin said. She said the two boats would arrive in the region late this week or early next week.

"This initiative is not going to stop," she said from the group's base in Cyprus. "We think eventually Israel will get some kind of common sense. They're going to have to stop the blockade of Gaza, and one of the ways to do this is for us to continue to send the boats."

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[Carley]

Suffering consisting of a shortage of katusha rockets, rifles, Israeli flags to burn, and assorted other weapons to be used against Israel.

[Flintlock]

Not if Israel doesn’t run out of torpedoes.

Or balls.

[Lurker]

Sink them as soon as you can, preferably at night and in the most shark infested waters available.

[Lancey Howard]

"They're going to have to stop the blockade of Gaza, and one of the ways to do this is for us to continue to send the boats."

And the obvious way to stop the boats is to blow every last one of them out of the water.

[ichabod1]

So they can go across and get cheap Gyp cigarettes? There will be riots (again) when they close the crossing (again). What a freaking kabuki dance. They should call the blockade runners provocateurs, and declare war on the palis entity.

[Zeppo]

Greta Berlin of the Free Gaza Movement, which organized the flotilla, said another cargo boat was off the coast of Italy en route to Gaza. A second boat carrying about three dozen passengers is expected to join it, Berlin said. She said the two boats would arrive in the region late this week or early next week. "This initiative is not going to stop," she said from the group's base in Cyprus. "We think eventually Israel will get some kind of common sense. They're going to have to stop the blockade of Gaza, and one of the ways to do this is for us to continue to send the boats."

Or, just maybe "Greta Berlin" needs to get some kind of common sense (or perhaps a little bit of help in that direction)...