Ship to Gaza

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Ship to Gaza is a Greco-Swedish initiative to break the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip . She became known from the incident involving the ship convoy to Gaza on May 31, 2010.

The Greek initiative was founded on February 25, 2010. The Swedish initiative has also been active since 2010. Your speakers are the jazz musician Dror Feiler and the religious historian Mattias Gardell .

2010

At the end of May 2010, Ship to Gaza was involved in the convoy to Gaza with two ships flying the Greek flag. The Sfendoni ( Σφενδόνη , German for about catapult ) is a passenger ship sailing under the Greek flag and operated together with the European Campaign to End the Siege of Gaza . The ship left the port of Piraeus on May 25, 2010 with the US flagged Challenger 1 (operated by the Free Gaza Movement) to meet the other ships off the coast of Cyprus. The Sophia (also called Eleftheri Mesogeios 7 Eλεύθερη Mεσόγειος , Free Mediterranean ) is a motor ship operated by the Swedish organization. The Swedish writer Henning Mankell traveled with the “Sophia” .

The Republic of Cyprus refused the convoy at the request of Israel, the phasing out of one of its ports so that operators initially Northern Cyprus anliefen and took from there sail for the coast of Gaza.

In the incident on May 31, 2010 , the Israeli Navy boarded ships loaded with relief supplies for the Gaza Strip in international waters , with which various groups wanted to break a sea ​​blockade that Israel had set up since 2007 after Hamas took power over the Gaza Strip .

Nine activists were killed and an unknown number and seven Israeli soldiers were injured in fighting with Israeli soldiers on the ship Mavi Marmara . The cause of the escalation has not yet been clarified.

2012

In autumn 2012, Ship to Gaza dispatched the Finnish three-masted gaff schooner Estelle with relief supplies to the Gaza Strip. The ship was boarded by Israeli soldiers on October 19 and directed to Ashdod.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Initiative , Ship to Gaza , February 25, 2010
  2. ↑ a b Έτοιμο να εμποδίσει τον «Στόλο της Ελευθερίας» το Ισραήλ ( Greek ) tvxs.gr. Retrieved June 4, 2010.
  3. ↑ News digest . In: Athens News , May 31, 2010. Archived from the original on June 3, 2010 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved June 10, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.athensnews.gr 
  4. ↑ Omar Ghraeib: International Aid Fleet Sets Sail to Gaza defying Israel's threats (English) . In: The Palestine Telegraph , May 27, 2010. Archived from the original on May 30, 2010 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved June 10, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.paltelegraph.com 
  5. ^ Henry Ascher: Photos of the boat Sofia ( English ) Ship to Gaza. Archived from the original on May 31, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 4, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.shiptogaza.se
  6. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.demotix.com
  7. ↑ Reinhard Mohr: "The Israelis could have aimed at the propellers" , Spiegel Online. June 3, 2010. Retrieved June 4, 2010. 
  8. ^ Attack on Gaza convoy . sueddeutsche.de. Retrieved February 12, 2011.
  9. ^ Neue Zürcher Zeitung, June 1, 2010: Dead and injured in an Israeli commando operation