COMMENT: Israel’s flotilla fatalities

On Monday the Israeli Defence Force attacked a flotilla of ships headed for Gaza resulting in the deaths of nine people and the injury of many others. The flotilla was carrying aid for Palestinians in Gaza who live under an illegal blockade that only allows one fifth of the supplies necessary through. While the flotillas mission was ostensibly to deliver this aid, a more political end was clearly intended, and that was to break the blockade.

BY BEN FINCH

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