Israël/Gaza Hulpkonvooi #26

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German Development Aid Minister Dirk Niebel was denied entry into the Gaza Strip during his current visit to Israel, German officials said Saturday evening.

A ministry spokesman said talks had continued to the last moment with Israeli officials over Niebel's aim to visit the Palestinian areas.

Niebel, who arrived in Israel earlier Saturday, had hoped to visit a sewage treatment plant being financed with German development aid.

Speaking on the second German TV network ZDF program"heute" (today) Saturday evening, Niebel expressed his anger about being denied entry.

"I would have wished for a clear political signal would be sent for an opening and for transparency," said Niebel, of Germany's liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP).

"Sometimes the Israeli government does not make it easy for its friends to explain why it behaves the way it does," he added.

Niebel said that Israel's latest announcement on easing the Gaza blockade was "not sufficient" and that Israel must "now deliver" on its pledge.

Beyond that, the government in Jerusalem should be "clear about how Israel, within an international context, wants to cooperate with
its friends in the future as well," the German minister said.

Earlier Saturday, the daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported that the German parliament is to issue a cross-party demand that Israel allow humanitarian aid to reach the Gaza Strip by sea.

According to the newspaper, a motion opposing Israel's blockade of Gaza had the support of Chancellor Angela Merkel's government coalition parties, as well as the opposition Social Democrats (SPD) and the Green Party.

"The living conditions for the civil population in Gaza must urgently be improved," the motion reportedly stated.

"Israel's Gaza blockade is effectively a blockade of the United Nations," the Greens' foreign spokeswoman Kerstin Mueller told the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, adding: "This is unacceptable."

Mueller said Israel had to give the United Nations sea access to Gaza, so aid could be delivered "quickly and unbureaucratically."

The motion reportedly calls upon the EU's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton to facilitate negotiations between Israel and the UN.

Earlier in the week, Israel decided to ease the blockade - which intensified after Hamas took control of the Strip in June 2007 - following international uproar over the May 31 Israeli navy attack on a flotilla of unauthorized aid to the Gaza strip, which left nine activists dead.

http://www.haaretz.com/ne(...)r-from-gaza-1.297107

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Op zondag 20 juni 2010 19:17 schreef Lolque het volgende:
Israël heft blokkade Gaza op
Alle goederen mogen binnenkort de Gazastrook in, behalve militaire voorwerpen en materiaal waarmee de radicale islamitische Hamasbeweging zich kan versterken. Israël brengt ,,zo snel mogelijk'' een lijst naar buiten van verboden goederen, liet het kantoor van de Israëlische premier Benjamin Netanyahu middels een verklaring weten.

http://www.spitsnieuws.nl(...)lokkade_gaza_op.html

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Op zondag 20 juni 2010 19:17 schreef Lolque het volgende:
Israël heft blokkade Gaza op
Alle goederen mogen binnenkort de Gazastrook in, behalve militaire voorwerpen en materiaal waarmee de radicale islamitische Hamasbeweging zich kan versterken. Israël brengt ,,zo snel mogelijk'' een lijst naar buiten van verboden goederen, liet het kantoor van de Israëlische premier Benjamin Netanyahu middels een verklaring weten.

http://www.spitsnieuws.nl(...)lokkade_gaza_op.html

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Op zondag 20 juni 2010 20:06 schreef ouderejongere het volgende:

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Goed nieuws. Als elk volk zo vergevingsgezind was als de Israëli's zou er geen oorlog zijn op de wereld.

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Op zondag 20 juni 2010 20:14 schreef Baghdaddy het volgende:

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Heel vergevingsgezind ja, duizenden kinderen en onschuldige mensen vermoord .

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Op zondag 20 juni 2010 20:16 schreef ouderejongere het volgende:

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door katusharaketten en ze hebben honderden bussen opgeblazen.

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Op zondag 20 juni 2010 20:13 schreef Optimistic1 het volgende:

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Onzin

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After a drumbeat of criticism against the Israeli investigation of the Gaza flotilla attack, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has joined in, noting the Israeli panel does not rise the level of a credible international inquiry. Ban also reinforced the criticism of the Israel siege of Gaza, saying the announcement of an easing of the blockade is insufficient to satisfy the world’s concern for easing Gaza’s suffering:



The panel announced by Israel to investigate the deadly assault on a flotilla seeking to run the Gaza blockade lacks adequate international weight to make the panel credible, the United Nations secretary-general said Friday.

Although Israel gave two foreigners observer status on the panel, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that most countries he had consulted agreed that “it is not sufficient enough to have international credibility.”

Mr. Ban also condemned the continued blockade of the Gaza Strip. Although he noted that Israel announced a slight easing of the blockade this week, Mr. Ban said a “fundamental change” was needed in its Gaza policy. “Much more is required to really meet the needs of the people,” he said at a news conference.

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Op zondag 20 juni 2010 20:25 schreef waht het volgende:

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Vanzelfsprekend. Want Israël is Israël en kan niks goed doen.

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Op zondag 20 juni 2010 20:29 schreef Optimistic1 het volgende:

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ze kunnen wel heel goed heel veel burgers in korte tijd doden zonder blokkade te riskeren. Ze kunnen prima atoombommen houden zonder blokkades te riskeren! Ze kunnen gewoon schepen in internationale wateren aanvallen en mensen doden zonder blokkades te riskeren!
Ze laten hun spionnen prima misbruik maken van de WII vervolgingen tegen joden om aan paspoorten te komen. Dit en andere zaken kun je prima van Israel leren...daar zijn ze niet slecht in in ieder geval.

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Op zondag 20 juni 2010 20:25 schreef waht het volgende:

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Vanzelfsprekend. Want Israël is Israël en kan niks goed doen.

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Israël zegt blokkade op te heffen
Volgens een verklaring van premier Netanyahu gaat Israël de blokkade in de Gazastrook grotendeels opheffen. Het veiligheidskabinet heeft daarover een principe-akkoord bereikt.

Binnenkort mogen alle goederen het Palestijnse gebied weer in, behalve wapens, staat in de verklaring. Maar voedsel en bouwmaterialen bijvoorbeeld mogen straks weer door.

De aangekondigde versoepeling van de blokkade volgt op de kritiek die Israël kreeg na de aanval op een hulpkonvooi voor Gaza. Daarbij werden negen Turkse activisten gedood.

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Op zondag 20 juni 2010 21:47 schreef Frutsel het volgende:

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Op zondag 20 juni 2010 20:25 schreef waht het volgende:

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Vanzelfsprekend. Want Israël is Israël en kan niks goed doen.

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Op zondag 20 juni 2010 22:23 schreef C_N het volgende:

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morgen gaan alllllllllllllllll de Israelish de zee in en geven Israel aan de palies zou dat goed zijn .............
nop denk het niet

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Op zondag 20 juni 2010 20:32 schreef Optimistic1 het volgende:

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Trouwens..het is onzin omdat er totaal geen blokkade wordt opgegeven. Israel zoekt een trucje om blokkade te houden en dat gebeurt door een beperkt aantal goederen toe te laten. Dus het is inderdaad onzin dat Israel totaal geen blokkade opheft.

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Op zondag 20 juni 2010 23:43 schreef TeenWolf het volgende:
Israel heft 'blokkade op'.

Uit het stukje:

"The prime minister's office issued a press release in English following the meeting, which was also sent to foreign diplomats, was substantially different than the Hebrew announcement--according to the English text, a decision was made to ease the blockade, but in the Hebrew text there was no mention of any such decision."

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It is not clear whether this discrepancy was a deliberate attempt to buy time in the face of international pressure, or a clerical omission on behalf of the Prime Minister's Office.

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Sources at the Prime Minister's Office admitted that there was no decision, and no vote, during the security cabinet meeting. One of the sources said that "it was a briefing by the prime minister," and another source said it was a "declaration of intent."

"A meeting will be held soon, and we hope that a binding decision will be taken then," the prime minister's office said, explaining that the reason for the delay is "the need for continued contact with allies within the international community in order to gain support for the liberalization plan." This despite the fact that most of the international community has already voiced support for the plan, following a campaign launched by Blair, who drafted the plan with Netanyahu.

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She also said the boats seized by Israel during a raid of the 'Freedom Flotilla' had yet to be returned.

"We are working hard on getting the Rachel Corrie back to Ireland, but we still haven't got back a boat seized by Israel last year. It is sitting in the port of Ashdod with the Rachel Corrie". [bron]

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De opvallenste van de individuele schepen is de Mariam die vanuit Libanon wil uitvaren. Er zullen alleen vrouwen aan boord zijn.

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"We regard any misconduct as described in Mr Musaji's allegations to be utterly unacceptable and intolerable, and suggest waiting until this subject matter is clarified," she said. "As had happened previously, an Israeli soldier was found guilty of illegal use of a credit card for which he was indicted and sentenced to seven months' imprisonment."