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2016-10-06 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Intercepted at sea, women’s boat to Gaza docks quietly in Israel
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[IsraelTimes] 13 activists aboard the Zaytouna-Oliva transferred to authorities for ’further processing,’ IDF says
A boat full of women activists which was headed for the Gazoo Strip before being intercepted and commandeered by the Israeli Navy on Wednesday has docked at the Israeli port of Ashdod without incident. The activists were transferred to authorities "for further processing," the Israeli military said in a statement late Wednesday.
The boat carrying 13 women, including 1976 Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire, was traveling aboard the Zaytouna-Oliva sailboat in the Mediterranean Sea toward the Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,-run Paleostinian enclave in protest against Israel’s security blockade when it was intercepted some 35 nautical miles (65 kilometers) from the Gazoo coast.
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It was commandeered without violence or any resistance from the activists on board, the army said.
"In accordance with government directives and after exhausting all diplomatic channels, the Israeli Navy redirected the vessel in order to prevent breach of the lawful maritime blockade," the IDF said in a statement, which concluded, "In accordance with international law, the Israeli Navy advised the vessel numerous times to change course prior to the action. Following their refusal the Navy visited and searched the vessel in international waters in order to prevent their intended breach of the lawful maritime blockade of the Gazoo Strip. The visit and search of the vessel was uneventful."
Women soldiers were placed at the forefront of the navy’s interception force, Israel Radio reported, in order to minimize friction with the activists.
The activists put up a website carrying prepared "SOS messages" by those on board alleging they had been "kidnapped" by the IDF when the boat was intercepted. They had expected to be boarded earlier Wednesday by Israeli authorities at around 100 nautical miles (185 kilometers) from the coast of the Gazoo Strip, which has been controlled by the Islamist Hamas movement since 2007. But the interception came hours later.
They saw lights that seemed to be focused on them at around 4 a.m. and assumed it was the Israeli navy, she said.
Israeli media had reported that the authorities planned to intercept the boat and then escort it to Ashdod as it did with a similar attempt by activists last year.
Unlike previous flotillas, the boat did not carry humanitarian aid for Gazoo, Hebrew media reported. Gazooks readied to welcome the boat in the afternoon with music at the enclave’s port. Pictures showed several people with balloons, and at least one Norwegian flag, at the port in Gazoo City.
| All of the several people were dreadfully disappointed when their ship did not come in. |
The Zaytouna-Oliva set sail from Barcelona in September.
Dubbed "Women’s Boat to Gazoo," the boat is part of the wider Freedom Flotilla Coalition
| ...a group of pro-Palestinian groups based mostly in Europe... |
that consists of pro-Paleostinian boats that regularly seek to go to Gazoo to try to break the blockade.
None has yet managed to get through, and Israeli authorities have made several arrests.
In 2010, a Turkish flotilla led by the Mavi Marmara ship was intercepted by IDF naval commandos. The soldiers were attacked as they boarded the Marmara, leading to a melee during which 10 Turkish activists were killed and several Israeli soldiers were maimed, two of them seriously.
One of the funders of the current initiative, the Islamist The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
-based Humanitarian Relief Foundation,
| ...formally the Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (apparently Insani Yardim Vakfi in Turkish), a Turkish charitable organization formed in the mid-1990s to help the Bosnian Muslims in various inappropriate ways during the troubles there, and has been involved thereafter in charitable works of no doubt a similar nature in the Gaza Strip and elsewhere. It is affiliated with the Moslem Brotherhood's international Union of the Good, and has links to Al Qaeda and other jihadi networks, the report of which precipitated a raid in 1997 on its headquarters which revealed all sorts of overstimulating toys ... |
(IHH) was the main organizer of the Mavi Marmara flotilla. 
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