get anywhere close they've been intercepted by the israeli navy and taken to the israeli port of ashdod thirty one boats have been used by international activists to try to break israeli naval blockade over the last ten years the only time they managed was back when they started in two thousand and eight since then every single one has been intercepted by the israeli navy its passengers detained and deported the most controversial attempt was in twenty ten israeli forces stormed the mavi marmara and opened fire killing ten and wounding many more israeli troops say the passengers attacked and the controversy and protests which followed calls turkey to withdraw its ambassador from tel aviv and expelled israelis from ankara it was six years before diplomatic ties were restored and israel agreed to pay compensation to the families of the dead subsequent patellas of escaped attack but not interception despite most activists knowing that the israeli navy will never allow their boats to reach gaza they say they will continue to try in order to raise awareness of israel seach stephanie decker a

aid for gaza has been intercepted by the israeli navy and is now being a score to the port city of ashdod it was one of two boats attempting to break the blockade of gaza by israel and egypt it set off from palermo in italy a week ago carrying twenty two people including some israeli citizens charles traffic joins us live now from ash die. charles what more can you tell us about the base johnny. but we can't tell you exactly when the boat will arrive here we understand just estimating given the the distance that it where it was when it was stopped by the israeli navy we expect any time sort of three to four hours from now the israeli navy military sorry put out a statement saying that the navy stops the ship in order to to stop it violating the legal naval blockade that is on the gaza strip it also said that it had monitored and had to step to the vessel according to international law now that statement was made around about the same time that all the tweets stopped coming from that vessel the allow the ship. around about the same time the head of the organization put out a statement sayi

in two thousand and fifteen the military directed four boats bound for gaza to the israeli port of ashdod while in two thousand and eight two boats carrying forty people from all over the world successfully reached israel's foreign ministry said it provided permission for it is in the port city of ashdod so there have been developments since we last spoke charles get us up to speed. that's right yeah the israeli military putting out a statement saying that city into city a ship the departed from europe in order to violate the legal naval blockade that is imposed on the gaza strip that statement going on to say the. israeli navy had melted into set cheat that boat in accordance with international law that said that the activity ended without exceptional incident and that any humanitarian assistance that that boat they are would allow that was carrying could be delivered to gaza via the port here in our store we know that the boat was carrying around fifty thousand dollars worth of medical equipment. around twenty twenty three people from around sixteen different nationalities now the organ

aid for gaza has been intercepted by the israeli navy and is now being escorted to the port city of ashdod it was one of two boats attempting to break a twelve year blockade of gaza by israel and egypt it set off from pelham a in italy a week ago carrying twenty two people including some israeli citizens or child stratford joins us live now from ashdod charles what can you tell us about the location of the boat now. was difficult to tell you exactly where the boat is because there has been no communication from the boat we understand since it was intercepted by the israeli navy israeli navy put out a statement a couple of hours ago saying that they didn't say intercepted the ship. that it to europe. in order to avoid what israel describes as the illegal naval blockade that is imposed upon the gaza strip that statement also saying that the israeli navy had monitored and into set to do it in accordance with international law or it was about that time the last statement was issued from the organization behind this flotilla calling on the governments of the sixteen different nationalities of t

two thousand and fifteen the military redirected four boats bound for gaza to the israeli port of ashdod two thousand and eight two boats carrying forty people from all over the world successfully reached gaza israel's foreign ministry said it provided permission charles stratford is at the port city of ashdod so what is the latest now on charles. well all indications would suggest that the israeli navy have now come and did control of these boats or at least chaperoning them we've heard reports they may be towing them here to the pullout of ashdod the last tweet put out by the organization. regarding the boats situation was about an hour ago we understand that the israeli military sort of these very navy had used loudspeakers and to the wall of the boats that as you say they were going to take all of a couple measures to stop the course of the. boat we understand it's carrying around fifteen thousand dollars worth of medical equipment. there twenty three activists couple of journalists on board as well from sixteen different nations septics sixteen different countries now we reached out

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with aid for gaza has been intercepted by the israeli navy and is being escorted to the port city of ashdod it was one of two boats attempting to break the twelve year blockade of gaza by israel and egypt it set off from palermo in italy a week ago carrying twenty two people including some israeli citizens. saudi media says gunman of shot dead the head of intelligence security for aid near port in yemen and also macquarie was killed by masked gunman no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack there's been a recent rise in attacks on government officials including high ranking security officers. and the saudi led coalition in yemen says its destroyed launch sites being used by who the rebels in the western province of sada these images released by saudi arabia's government run by your t.v. are said to show the coalition strike on one of the missile sites. zimbabwe's opposition leader nelson chamisa has been reported to the police for holding an unlawful press conference on the eve of elections when campaigning is not allowed earlier chamisa received endorsement from an unlikely so

aid for garza has been intercepted by the israeli navy and is being escorted to the port city of ashdod it was one of two boats trying to break the twelve year blockade of gaza by israel and egypt it set off from palermo in italy a week ago carrying twenty two people including some israeli citizens the second boat is expected to arrive in the same area within days charles stratford is in ashdod. the israeli ministry released a statement saying that the navy had intercepted this vessel because it was trying to violate what it describes as the illegal blockade on gaza he said that the navy had been monitoring and indeed the interception of this vessel was carried out according to international law it was around about the same time that the organization responsible for this flotilla put out a statement calling on the governments of the various people on board to act immediately now the organization the international freedom flotilla coalition says that it was fully aware that there was a very strong chomps that israel was going to do this that israel was going to stop this flotilla from re

get anywhere close they've been intercepted by the israeli navy and taken to the israeli port of ashdod thirty one boats have been used by international activists to try to break this really naval blockade over the last ten years the only time they managed was back when they started in two thousand and eight since then every single one has been intercepted by the israeli navy its passengers detained and deported the most controversial attempt was in twenty ten israeli forces stormed the mavi marmara and opened fire killing ten and wounding many more israeli troops say the passengers attacked and the controversy and protests which followed calls turkey to withdraw its ambassador from tel aviv and expelled israelis from ankara it was six years before diplomatic ties were restored and israel agreed to pay compensation to the families of the dead subsequent patellas of escaped attack but not interception and despite most activists knowing that the israeli navy will never allow their boats to reach gaza they say they will continue to try in order to raise awareness of israel siege stephanie

aid for gaza has been intercepted by the israeli navy and is now being a score to the port city of ashdod it was one of two boats attempting to break the blockade of gaza by israel and egypt it set off from palermo in italy a week ago carrying twenty two people including some israeli citizens or child strafford joins us live now from ashdod charles what do we know about the location of the boat. we know very little about the location of the boat what we do know though is that it was around about six hours ago that the israeli military released this statement saying that they had in intercepted this boat the they said that it was intercepted because it was trying to violate the the legal blockade on gaza or said that the interception was done according to international lord said that it had been monitoring the boat and was waiting for it to arrive in that area before intercept to get it was around about the same time that a statement was released by the organization organizing this for the tiller the international freedom flotilla and they said that that the governments of the various peop

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for dollars has been intercepted by the israeli navy it's now being escorted to the port city of ashdod the boat was part of a flotilla attempting to break the twelve year old blockade of gaza by israel and egypt it set off from palermo in italy a week ago carrying twenty two people including some israeli citizens on board we can now cross over to charles stratford he's joining us from a port itself no surprise that the israeli navy intercepted that freedom flotilla trolls so what are you hearing about the latest situation. well the latest we can tell you is a statement that was put out by the israeli military a couple of hours ago they saying that they intercepted a ship that they described as having traveled from your in order to violate the legal naval blockade that is imposed on garza they said that the navy monitored and intercepted that boat in accordance with international law they say that any aid on that boat could be transferred to gaza via the port here in ashdod we've heard nothing more all tweets stopped from the boat i'd say around three hours ago to time where we we estim

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