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The flotilla, organized by the Free Gaza Movement and the Turkish Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (İHH), was carrying humanitarian aid and construction materials, intending to break the Israeli naval blockade of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli Navy warned the flotilla via radio to stop approaching the naval ...
Israeli navy officers addressed the ship as "Linda"—the vessel's name before it was renamed for Rachel Corrie. [122] The ship was intercepted by the Israeli navy on Saturday, June 5, 2010, 23 miles off the coast, and diverted to the port of Ashdod. There the cargo was to be inspected and sent over land to Gaza. [123]
Ship name Meaning History Fate Status Stollergrund-class utility ships [7] (Germany) INS Bat Yam: Bat Yam: Formerly Kalkgrund (Y865) Active INS Bat Galim 3 Bat Galim: Formerly Bant (Y867) Passed as a research vessel to Israel's Oceanographic and Limnological Research Institution: Sold General Frank S. Besson (United States) INS Nahshon: Pioneer ...
Israel returned the bodies on Wednesday of 88 Palestinians killed in its military offensive in the Gaza Strip, which the territory's health ministry refused to bury before Israel discloses details ...
Israel, which has lost around 330 soldiers in Gaza, says around a third of the Palestinian dead are fighters. (Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi in Cairo and Hatem Khaled in Gaza; Editing by Sharon ...
The Israeli military said Friday its troops in Gaza found the bodies of three Israeli hostages killed by Hamas during its Oct. 7 attack, including German-Israeli Shani Louk. A photo of 22-year-old ...
The ship got underway on 31 May 2010, with her crew insisting that they would go to Gaza. [13] Despite repeated requests by the Irish Government and others to let the ship through to Gaza, Israeli commandos boarded the ship from speed boats at around noon on 5 June 2010, in international waters about 30 kilometres (16 nmi) from Gaza, seized ...
The recovered bodies were from about 250 hostages captured during the Hamas-led shock incursion into southern Israel on Oct. 7 that sparked Israel's retaliatory war in Gaza. Their deaths leave 101 ...