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Israel stops Gaza aid boat organised by
European Jewish groups
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 10:19:27 PM,
Agencies
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An aid ship carrying eight Jewish
activists from Europe, Israel, and the US was apprehended by the
Israeli navy just miles off the coast of Gaza after being warned
by a warship.
The voyage was organised by European
Jewish groups to condemn "collective punishment against 1.5
million Palestinians".
Navy commandos boarded the Irene,
and then the passengers were led off the boat.
Rich Cooper, an organiser with Independent Jewish Voices, told Al
Jazeera that his group is now demanding the immediate release of
the activists.
The ship had left the port of Famagusta in Turkish-held northern
Cyprus on Sunday afternoon.
The Israeli army had said it would offer to transfer the ship's
aid supplies to the port of Ashdod and then ask the crew to turn
back.
Ehud Barak, Israel's defence minister, had repeatedly warned that
Israel will intercept any ship nearing Gaza, which is governed by
the Palestinian group Hamas.
"In the tradition of the civil rights movement ... we assert our
right to continue to Gaza under international law," Glyn Secker,
the Irene's captain, told Al Jazeera on Monday.
The 10-metre catamaran was tiny in comparison with the six-ship
May 31 aid convoy that contained 10,000 tonnes of aid and over 700
activists.
But the voyage was a gesture by left-leaning European Jewish
groups to highlight what they see as a flawed Israeli policy of
collective punishment against 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza.
Reuven Moskovitz, an 82-year-old Holocaust survivor among the
passengers on the British-flagged vessel, is a founding member of
the Jewish-Arab village Neve Shalom (Oasis of Peace).
"We are two peoples, but we have one future," Moskovitz said in a
statement on the Jewish Boat to Gaza website.
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