Mazin Qumsiyeh
31 May 2010

Israeli criminal navy attacks humanitarian ships in International waters.  Reports of 10-16 humanitarian activists killed and 50-60 injured.  The Israeli army had tried to make the media maneuver of saying they would arrest and take the boats when they enter Gaza coastal waters and tow the boats to port in Asdod (renamed Ashdod after the occupation of 1948) and had prepared tens to house the arrestees at that southern port.  Instead the Israeli army decided to execute a surprise maneuver and attack the boats at night and in the north near Cyprus in International waters and then board the boats and take them to the northern port of Haifa.  In doing so they committed a massacre of unarmed civilians to add to the hundreds of massacres committed before but this time they have really gone way too far and alienated the international community with this horrendous crime.

Time to demonstrate everywhere and write to all you know and all you do not know (media, politicians etc).  Organize your own event (in front of Israeli missions abroad, in front of government buildings, in public squares etc) or join any of the planned emergency demonstrations.  In Bethlehem we gather at the Nativity Square and march to the apartheid wall at 2 PM.

Updates at http://witnessgaza.com/ and

http://www.freegaza.org/

Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD http://qumsiyeh.org

Published today (updated) 31/05/2010 13:08

Behlehem – Ma’an – Human rights lawyers say the attack on the ship was likely illegal according to international law and the customary law of the sea, noting that Israeli justifications in claims that the activists were armed do not render their actions legal.

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Protest Tuesday, June 1, 2010
4:30pm – 7:00pm
Location:
Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra and Perth (and maybe more to come)

Come and protest against the Israeli atrocities documented here.

16 people (possibly more) are dead after the IDF seized an aid ship in international waters and opened fire on its crew. The ship was part of an aid convoy trying to bring much needed cement and other building materials to rebuild Gaza after Israel’s atrocities there in the 2008/9 Gaza War.

Protest details: CLICK HERE

STOP THE WAR COALITION
31 May 2010
Email office@stopwar.org.uk
Tel: 020 7801 2768
Web: http://stopwar.org.uk
Twitter: http://twitter.com/STWuk

1) ISRAELI TERROR ON THE HIGH SEAS
2) STOP THE WAR PRESS RELEASE

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1) ISRAELI TERROR ON THE HIGH SEAS
The death toll after the Israeli assault on the Gaza aid flotilla is now reported to be over 20. The attack took place in international waters, making it a major violation of international law. Imagine the response if such an attack had been carried out by Iran. We would now be at war.

Below is the press release issued by Stop the War earlier, calling for the British government to condemn the attack and to break links with Israel.

See the Stop the War website for links to videos of the Israeli attack:
http://bit.ly/aEMHws

Please use all means you can — by email, text, Facebook, Twitter, phone — to publicise today’s emergency demonstration.

EMERGENCY DEMONSTRATION TODAY
MONDAY 31 MAY 2.00PM DOWNING STREET LONDON

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via Palestine Video:

Israel ‘attacks’ Gaza aid fleet

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