New Flotilla Set for Seized Gaza: Turkish Activists

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A Turkish aid group said on Monday that it would send ships again to challenge the "Israeli" blockade of seized Gaza, four years after Zionists commandos stormed its flotilla bound for the enclave and martyred 10 people.

The Humanitarian Relief Foundation [IHH] said in an e-mailed statement that members of a "coalition" of pro-Palestinian activists from 12 countries had met in the Turkish city of Istanbul recently on the weekend and decided to launch a convoy "in the shadow of the latest "Israeli" aggression on [seized] Gaza."
Fighting has abated under a 72-hour cease-fire deal.

"The Freedom Flotilla Coalition affirmed that, as most governments are complicit, the responsibility falls on civil society to challenge the "Israeli" blockade on [seized] Gaza," it said.
An IHH spokeswoman did not elaborate. The group will hold a news conference on Tuesday, she said.

In May 2010, nine Turks died in international waters after "Israeli" soldiers raided their vessel, the Mavi Marmara, leading a flotilla to break "Israel's" seven-year blockade of seized Gaza. A 10th Turkish activist died in May from wounds suffered in the attack.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team