Die Dignitiy fährt in den Gazahafen
ein, nachdem die israelische Flotte damit gedroht hatte, an Bord zu
kommen, um die beiden Israelis von Bord zu holen. „Wir wissen, ihr
habt Israelis an Bord. Entweder Ihr dreht ab oder wir kommen an Bord
und nehmen sie von dort mit,“ sagt eine Stimme über Radio.
„Wir fahren nach Gaza,“ antwortete
Hurreida Arraf, die Verantwortliche der Delegation.
Neta Golan, eine der Israelis an Bord
und Mitbegründerin von ISM, sagt: „Länder, die Verbrechen gegen die
Menschlichkeit begehen, verbergen oft diese Verbrechen vor ihrem
eigenen Volk. Genau dies tut Israel, indem es Israelis nicht
erlaubt, Zeugen dessen zu sein, was es in unserem Namen tut.“
Die Dignity bringt auch 2 Botschafter
der Eid-Charity aus Qatar mit, um dort die Tragödie zu beurteilen.
Sie wird mit konkreten Vorschlägen zurückgehen, was man tun könne,
um Israels Kollektivstrafe an 1,5 Millionen Palästinensern zu
lindern.
Dies ist nur der Beginn. „Wir sind
hocherfreut, dass wir in der Lage sind, nun die Küste Gazas zu
sehen.
Wir sind die 1. arabischen Botschafter,
die hier ankommen. Wir wollen sehen, wie wir zusammenarbeiten
können, um diese schreckliche Situation im Gazastreifen zu
verbessern“, sagte Alaze Al-Qattani.
Dies ist unsere 5. Reise der
Free-Gaza-Movement. Jeder sagte, dies hätte keinen Erfolg; wir
würden niemals den Gazastreifen erreichen. Doch wir sind jetzt zum
5. Mal da. Jetzt müssen andere Schiffe, Cargo-Schiffe, nach uns
kommen,“ sagt Darlene Wallach, eine der Internationalen, die von
einem palästinensischen Fischerboot von der israelischen Marine am
18.November gekidnappt wurde.
Greta Berlin
(dt. Ellen Rohlfs)
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Datum: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:09:51 +0200
Von: "Pal Reports"
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An:
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Free Gaza Statement: We Do Not Ask Permission from Israel
FREE GAZA MOVEMENT
December 18, 2008
*We Do Not Ask Permission
from Israel*
The Free Gaza Movement is
sending the Dignity on its fifth mission to Gaza
with envoys on board from
civil society organizations in Qatar. The boat
also carries journalists,
human rights observers, and Palestinians who want
to return home and have
been prevented from doing so by the Israeli
occupation.
On the eve of this voyage,
the Free Gaza Movement would like to correct a
few the statements made by
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in a December
11 interview with Al-Sharq
al-Awsat newspaper. In that interview, Abbas
suggesting that our
efforts are coordinated with the Israelis – that the
Israelis check the
passports of the passengers aboard our ship and officials
from the Israeli Embassy
in Larnaca, Cyprus, check our boat before we leave
the port.
And as a result of this
interference, President Abbas stated that ours is a
"silly game" and that we
are not really breaking the siege.
We do not coordinate any
of our actions with the Israelis. Israel has
grossly abused its
authority as an occupying power by collectively punishing
the people of Gaza and
denying them basic human rights. As such, we neither
seek Israel's permission,
nor submit to their searches, to assert the right
of the Palestinian people
to have access to the outside world, which
includes the right to
invite and welcome us to Gaza.
So, why do we get in,
while other efforts are stopped by the Israeli
authorities? Because we
remove the "security" pretext with which Israel
tries to justify its
brutal actions and inhumane policies towards the
Palestinian people.
Amongst other things, we publicize our passenger list;
we depart from Cyprus, a
neutral European country; and we submit to a search
by the Cypriot Port
Authorities to verify that we are not carrying anything
that can be considered a
threat to Israel's security. We sail from Cyprus
waters, into international
waters, directly into Gaza's territorial waters,
without entering Israeli
waters. Israel realizes that it cannot stop us
without using force
against us, because we will not be turned around easily.
President Abbas' statement
that we coordinate with the Israelis was
misinformed. However,
Abbas was correct when he said that we are not really
breaking the siege on
Gaza. Our boats cannot break the siege alone. Our hope
is that we have started
something that others can build on. We have shown
that the concerted efforts
of ordinary civilians working together in the
name of justice can
confront and successfully challenge Israel's brutal
policies and hope we have
inspired other people to break their silence over
Israel's war crimes in the
Gaza Strip and throughout the occupied
Palestinian territory.
From the continued and accelerated Judaization of
Jerusalem and the rabid
violence of the settler movement, to the vicious
racism of Israeli
politicians, Israel is committing massive violations
against the people Gaza
and Palestine as a whole. The world must stand up to
this.
The Free Gaza Movement
will continue to send boats to Gaza to challenge
Israel's imprisonment of
1.5 million Palestinians, and we will continue to
work for freedom and
justice for all of the Palestinian people. We do not
need Israel's permission
and we will never ask for it. We do need President
Abbas, the Arab world, and
the entire international community to join us.