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Confrontation Begins Before Gaza Flotilla Sets Sail by Apostolis Fotiadis -- Antiwar.com

Confrontation Begins Before Gaza Flotilla Sets Sail by Apostolis Fotiadis -- Antiwar.com
ATHENS — Activists are engaged in a harsh confrontation with Israeli authorities days before the international “Freedom Flotilla II — Stay Human” sets sail toward the Gaza strip in an attempt to break the naval blockade Israel has imposed since 2007.

The flotilla will include 10 ships that have already reached Athens. Two are cargo boats carrying medical aid and construction material. The rest are passenger ships carrying hundreds of people, among them politicians, writers, religious leaders, people from the fields of art and culture, as well as 10 members of the European Parliament and 10 MPs from France, Norway, Sweden, and Spain.

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