Just hours after the killing of Israeli embassy staff in the U.S., hundreds of Greeks marched to the Israeli embassy in Athens demanding an end to Israeli attacks on Gaza. Led by the PAME trade union, protesters waved Palestinian flags and chanted against what they called Israel's genocidal war. They urged global silence to end and called the siege a humanitarian catastrophe.
Democracy Now! Eleven peace activists and one journalist on board the Gaza Freedom Flotilla ship, the "Madleen," were detained by Israeli soldiers as their ship carrying vital humanitarian aid for starving Palestinians approached Gaza. The ship was intercepted by Israeli forces in the middle of the night in international waters. Its supplies were seized and communications jammed. The unarmed activists will likely be transported to Israeli detention or "immediately deported," says Ann Wright, a U.S. military veteran who has participated in four Freedom Flotilla journeys and now serves on the steering committee of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition. She calls on citizens of countries around the world to push for the activists' release and an end to Israel's war on Gaza.
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