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# Gaza flotilla: Israel faces second showdown with aid ship
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## Israel is headed for a second showdown with an aid ship after activists
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said they would again try to breach the blockade and deliver their cargo to
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the Gaza strip.
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![Supplies to be loaded onto the MV Rachel Corrie][1]
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Activist Naimh Moloughney packs bags to be loaded into the cargo ship the MV
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Rachel Corrie at the weekend Photo: PA
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By Dina Kraft in Tel Aviv 7:02PM BST 04 Jun 2010
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There were fears of further clashes as Israel warned it would not allow the
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ship land despite international pressure to drop the restriction following the
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commando raid on the aid flotilla in which nine people were killed.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his Cabinet that the boat, the Irish-
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owned Rachel Corrie, would not reach the territory.
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Israel has urged the activists to bring the ship to the southern Israeli port
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of Ashdod and promised to transfer all aid to Gaza, however, the activists
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rejected the Israeli offer.
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The Irish Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Mairead McGuire, who is on board the
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ship said activists were determined to press on but would offer no resistance
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if Israeli forces came aboard.
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"We will sit down. They will probably arrest us ... But there will be no
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resistance."
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## Related Articles
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* [Israeli forces board Gaza-bound aid ship][2]
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05 Jun 2010
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* [Israeli forces board Gaza-bound aid ship][3]
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05 Jun 2010
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* [Israel determined to stop aid ship reaching Gaza][4]
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05 Jun 2010
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* [Turkey maintains Israel relations in spite of widespread anger][5]
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04 Jun 2010
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* [Gaza flotilla attack: Israel 'considers easing blockade'][6]
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04 Jun 2010
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* [Activists to make second attempt to break Gaza blockade][7]
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01 Jun 2010
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By this afternoon the ship, which is named after a young american activist
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crushed to death by and Israeli army bulldozer during a Gaza demonstration
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against house demolitions in 2003, was 134 miles (215 kilometers) off the Gaza
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coast and was expected to reach Israel's 20-mile exclusion zone by this
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morning.
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Brian Cowen, the Irish Prime Minister, has issued a warning that the ship must
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be allowed to sail on to Gaza.
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British activists who were detained briefly by Israel following the raid on
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the Turkish ship the Mavi Mara on Monday were returning to the UK and claimed
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that commandos had operated on a "shoot to kill" policy.
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However, Israeli officials say that navy commandos acted in self-defence on
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the ship after they were attacked by ship passengers who beat them with metal
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poles, knives and later even shot at them with two pistols they took from the
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soldiers themselves.
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Israel is under pressure, particularly from Washington, to find a way out of
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the diplomatic crisis that has followed. Mr Netanyahu is now understood to be
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considering scaling back the scope of the blockade. This would involve
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reducing the naval blockade to prevention of arms smuggling with assistance of
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international community.
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The blockade was instituted three years ago in a bid to isolate and ultimately
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weaken Hamas, which had just taken over the Gaza Strip in a bloody showdown
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with Fatah, its more moderate rivals who remain in control of the West Bank.
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The flotilla raid has seriously damaged Israel's relationship with Turkey, its
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only Muslim ally. Yesterday the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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further inflamed the situation by claiming that he did not view Hamas as a
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terrorist organisation.
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"Hamas are resistance fighters who are struggling to defend their land. They
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have won an election," Mr Erdogan said in a public speech in the central city
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of Konya.
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"I have told this to US officials... I do not accept Hamas as a terrorist
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organisation. I think the same today. They are defending their land," he said.
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Hamas, which is committed to the destruction of Israel, is blacklisted in the
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United States and the European Union as a terrorist group.
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In Istanbul, a crowd of some 10,000 people held prayers for a journalist among
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the nine Turkish men killed in Monday's raid.
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Chants of "murderer Israel" echoed across the courtyard of the historic
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Beyazit Mosque, where a huge banner called for the Israeli embassy to be shut
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down.
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Abdullah Gul, the Turkish president, has warned relations with Israel "will
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never be the same" and Bulent Arinc, the Deputy Prime Minister, said economic
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and defence ties would be slashed.
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Ismail Haniya, the Hamas premier, said yesterday that the aid activists trying
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to break Israel's blockade of Gaza had emerged the victors.
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"The strategy of the enemy has failed and the strategy of patience has won in
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Gaza today," he said in a sermon at the weekly Muslim prayers in Gaza City.
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"Your message has reached its target. Your aid has reached its target, you
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have broken the political and media siege, and you will be a cause for the
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lifting of the economic siege of Gaza," he said.
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