State of alert throughout Israel. “Brink of war or new Intifada”
by Joshua Lapide
Toll from attack rises to 19 dead. Roads to the West Bank and the Gaza crossings closed. Access to Temple Mount mosques forbidden. Raed Salah, Palestinian leader of the northern Israel is seriously hurt. Arab and Israeli strikes in Gaza. Abbas declares three days of mourning and calls the Israeli operation “a massacre”. Israel claims aid ships were “a provocation” with links to terrorism. Anti-Israeli demonstrations in Istanbul. Ankara withdraws its ambassador from Tel Aviv.
erusalem (AsiaNews) – Israeli police and security forces have raised a state of alert across the country after the attack on a group of ships off the coast of Gaza, leading to at least 19 dead and dozens injured (see Israel attacks ships carrying aid to Gaza. At least 10 dead). An Israeli policeman tells AsiaNews that “We are on the brink of war or a new Intifada.”
Here and there in Israel, particularly in Nazareth, there are demonstrations against the attack on the ships carrying humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza, forcing the Israeli blockade on the Strip. Arab organizations have declared a general strike. Security forces have decided to close the Gaza crossings, some roads that communicate with the West Bank and the Temple Mount mosques.
The seized vessels (all six) were conducted in the port of Ashdod. There are fears about the fate of a Palestinian leaders from northern Israel, Raed Salah, who was on the attacked ships. At first the news spread that he had been killed in the raid. Palestinian sources now say that he is seriously hurt.
Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority has declared three days of mourning throughout the West Bank and called the Israeli operation a “massacre”.
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This is not about israel against Palestine anymore, this became an eye opener for the whole world. The US was founded by Christians not jews, but with the time they took control over everything, media, politics, economy and the list keeps going on and on. Our food is marked as kosher and our sons are circumcised, WTF. If the jews love and want their land WTF are they doing here. This criminals have destroyed this nation (US) by running their own personal agenda using the US government puppets as a shield and strong arm. The people of the US have been the victims of this fiasco, why do I have to pay taxes to protect israel, we give them 3 billions a year, money that we really could use to fix our nation, not fucking israel.