{"id":6372,"date":"2009-02-05T11:25:44","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T16:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6372"},"modified":"2009-02-05T11:25:44","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T16:25:44","slug":"israeli-forces-seize-gaza-aid-ship-no-arms-aboard-seized-gaza-freighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6372","title":{"rendered":"Israeli forces seize Gaza aid ship | No arms aboard seized Gaza freighter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Israeli forces seize Gaza aid ship<br \/>\n<em>Al Jazeera<\/em> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2009\/02\/20092592757311355.html\">5 February 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Israeli navy has captured and diverted a ship from Lebanon carrying more than 60 tonnes of aid to the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s correspondent aboard the Al-Ikhwa (The Brotherhood) ship said the navy first opened fire, then five Israeli soldiers boarded the ship, beating and threatening the passengers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are pointing guns against us &#8211; they are kicking us and beating us. They are threatening our lives,&#8221; Al Jazeera&#8217;s Salam Khoder said.<\/p>\n<p>Communications with the ship broke off shortly thereafter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2009\/02\/20092592757311355.html\">Read more<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>No arms aboard seized Gaza freighter<br \/>\nBy Amir Cohen, <em>Reuters<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/worldNews\/idUKTRE51421920090205\">5 February 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ASHDOD, Israel (Reuters) &#8211; The Israeli navy boarded a freighter trying to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip on Thursday and escorted it into the port of Ashdod, Israeli officials said.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first apparent attempt by a foreign ship carrying aid to reach the Palestinian enclave since Israel ended its 22-day offensive in the Gaza Strip two weeks ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/worldNews\/idUKTRE51421920090205\">Read more<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli forces seize Gaza aid ship Al Jazeera \/ 5 February 2009 The Israeli navy has captured and diverted a ship from Lebanon carrying more than 60 tonnes of aid to the Gaza Strip. Al Jazeera&#8217;s correspondent aboard the Al-Ikhwa &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6372\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1EM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6372"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6376,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6372\/revisions\/6376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}