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Israeli students demonstrate at Haifa University in support of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) assault on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla yesterday. Photograph: Baz Ratner/Reuters

via Ali Abunimah: Picture: Israeli students at Haifa Univ demonstrate in SUPPORT of murderous Israeli attack on #flotilla

In riva al mare, mentre le navi della solidarietà provano a salpare verso la Striscia

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La notte del 15 febbraio 1988 un’imbarcazione esplodeva nel porto cipriota di Limassol. Si trattava dell’Al Awda (“il ritorno”) ed era carica di aiuti umanitari destinati ai profughi in Palestina. Il Mossad che collocava una bomba sul quello scafo qualche ora prima aveva ucciso i tre membri dell’OLP incaricati della missione.

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By Elena Becatoros, Suzan Fraser, The Associated Press

ATHENS — Activists returning to Europe after Israeli forces raided their aid flotilla said Tuesday that the commandos had beaten passengers and used electric shocks during the assault.

Six Greeks and several others, including a Turkish woman and her 1-year-old baby, were released Tuesday, but Israel has barred access to hundreds of others seized during the raid that killed at least nine people and wounded dozens early Monday.

Most of those killed were aboard the Turkish-flagged Mavi Marmara, and there have been conflicting accounts of what happened during the assault.

Turkish activist Nilufer Cetin, who had hidden with her baby in her cabin’s bathroom aboard the Mavi Marmara, told reporters she believed there were 11 dead.

“The ship turned into a lake of blood,” Cetin told reporters in Istanbul, having returned after Israeli officials warned that jail would be too harsh for her child.

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