Israel\’s Supreme Court rejected an appeal by an Irish Nobel laureate who was refused entry to Israel because of her involvement in a Gaza-bound flotilla.
Israeli commandos peacefully intercepted a boat carrying Jewish activists who hoped to breach Israel’s embargo of the Gaza Strip.
Israel and Jewish defense groups slammed a U.N. Human Rights Council report accusing Israel of breaking international law when it intercepted a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.
An Israeli officer and soldier are suspected of selling goods they confiscated from the Gaza flotilla after the May raid.
Turkey has set up its own inquiry into Israel\’s raid on a Gaza-bound aid convoy that left none Turkish citizens dead, the AFP news agency reported on Thursday.
Turkey has launched its own investigation into Israel\’s interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla.
Israeli naval commandos should have used snipers to \”incapacitate\” the activists on the deck of a Turkish ship who attacked as the soldiers were boarding, Israel\’s military chief said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a public inquiry into the deadly, late May raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla that he left the matter in the hands of his defense minister and military leaders.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a panel investigating the Gaza-bound Turkish flotilla incident that Israeli commandos acted in accordance with international law.
Turkey summoned the American envoy for a reprimand over remarks about the U.N. flotilla probe by the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
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