GAZA FREEDOM FLOTILLA- DAY TWO. You can follow events from a live webcam on the Turkish passenger ship MAVI MARMARA, with camera pointing over bow. The Swedish/Greek cargo ship SOFIA is still livestreaming her loading in Athens. We await details of Algerian cargo AL-JAZAIR, Turkish cargos GAZZE and DEFNE Y, German passenger yacht CHALLENGER I and the Irish MV RACHEL CORRIE.
(Details on each relief convoy ship at this post.)
We probably cannot expect the webcams to broadcast as the flotilla nears the Israeli Navy. This is explained in article on Media Line which interviewed FreeGazaOrg’s Greta Berlin:
In an attempt to curtail a public relations disaster of armed troops confronting the civilian ships, the Israel Navy is expected to jam the satellite transmission and otherwise use electronic warfare to quash all coverage and photos of the event.
“They have turned off our satellite phones. They have blocked our transmissions. We have live stream videos and we will continue to broadcast as long as we can. As long as it is on live and the signal suddenly goes out, then I think the world clearly knows what is happening and what Israel is doing.”
Aboard MAVI MARMARA
SOFIA in port.
Good evening!
We would like to inform you that our cargo ship’s name is “Eleftheri Mesogeios” (“Free Mediterranean”) and not “Sophia” (which was indeed its former name – our fault, not yours 🙂 ).
Thank you very much!
the main organization behind the so-called “Gaza Freedom” flotilla is the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), a so-called “relief” organization from Turkey.
This is an organization which does not conceal its close ties to Hamas, a terror organization as recognized by the United States, Israel and the European Union (EU).
The Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation is openly supportive of Hamas, an organization that is widely seen as the one of the largest perpetrators of human rights violations, having violently seized control of the Gaza Strip, and committed immeasurable human rights violations against secular Palestine Arabs, not to mention hundreds of terror attacks initiated targeting the citizens of Israel.
Many find it odd that Turkey Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan supports the IHH in their attempt to break the maritime closure of the Gaza Strip and ranks the IHH’s efforts as his “top priority” for the country. Turkey has withdrawn its ambassador to Israel and canceled three joint military drills as they keep a watchful eye on riots taking place at the entrance of Israeli ambassador’s residence in Ankara – something they could have prevented.
The IHH has also provided aid to insurgents seeking to kill US troops in Iraq.
Not only have the IHH stirred trouble in Turkey for supporting terror, but their aims to promote terror activity have reached a worldwide level.
In 1996, phone records of the IHH showed calls to an Al Qaida guesthouse in Milan and to Algerian terror cells throughout Europe.
And the IDF TERRORISTS have once again fired on Civilians and claimed their victims were being used as Human Shields. Same PIG rhetoric we’re quite used to, Joe.
Tell me something, Joe, do you do the same Hatchet job on American victims of Police Murder?
Blame the dead people, they’re easier to convict because they can’t hire a lawyer.
Murderous Scum and the same Moronic “Back the Badge” knee-jerk reactionary propaganda to cover for the Killer Kop Koalition.
This attack on the Gaza Aid Flotilla was the first battle in the new US and israeli war against Iran and its Middle Eastern allies. I also believe that the Obama Administration and the Republicans both have made it quite clear that they both support this new war making by the Pentagon and its Israeli battalions. Unfortunately the American people are once again passively going along with it.