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# Gaza aid flotilla attack: 42 Britons detained by Israel
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## Israel has detained 31 British nationals and a further 11 with dual
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nationality following the storming of an aid flotilla heading for the Gaza
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Strip in which nine civilians were killed.
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3:54PM BST 01 Jun 2010
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William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, has called on Israel to mount a
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''transparent and thorough'' investigation into the killings aboard ships that
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were attempting to breach the Israeli blockade of the territory.
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Mr Hague said one individual had already been deported while the rest were
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being seen by British consular officials.
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''They are all in the process of being visited and Israel is giving us the
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appropriate consular access as, of course, they should,'' he said.
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Mr Hague welcomed a statement by the United Nations Security Council calling
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for a ''prompt, impartial, credible and transparent'' investigation into the
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seizure of the flotilla by Israeli commandos early on Monday.
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''We look to Israel to co-operate to implement that resolution with a
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transparent and thorough investigation,'' he said.
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01 Jun 2010
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After a meeting of the National Security Council at the Prime Minister's
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country residence at Chequers, Mr Hague said he expected the detained British
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nationals to be deported by Israel "very quickly".
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The Israeli authorities said 50 of the 679 activists taken off the flotilla
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had already been taken to Israel's international airport for deportation.
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The rest were being held at the Be'er Sheva detention centre in southern
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Israel, having refused to identify themselves.
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Mark Regev, spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said that
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the detainees were being treated in line with international practice.
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"We are not charging them with anything, we have detained them and we will
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help them leave our country," he told the BBC.
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However there was anger and concern among friends and relatives in the UK who
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complained that they were unable to establish contact with the detainees or
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find out what was happening to them.
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Rachel Bridgeland, whose partner, Peter Venner, 63, from Ryde, Isle of Wight,
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was on the Turkish aid ship the Mavi Marmara, said that the Government should
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be putting more pressure on Israel.
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"It's absolutely terrible not knowing what has happened to him and it's
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terrible that the British Government hasn't done more but they don't want to
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fall out with Israel," she said.
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"They should insist that the British people are allowed to phone us, they have
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done nothing illegal."
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The British detainees were also thought to include Sarah Colborne, campaign
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and operations director for the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC).
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PSC general secretary Betty Hunter said there was no justification their
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detention.
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"Those held illegally by the Israeli Government have committed no crime, they
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have simply attempted to avert a humanitarian disaster by bringing much needed
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medical supplies into Gaza," she said.
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Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, said that the incident underlined the
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need for Israeli to lift its "unjustifiable and untenable" blockade of the
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Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
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"What is going on in Gaza has become a humanitarian catastrophe," he said.
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"Whilst, of course, Israel has every right to defend itself and its citizens
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from any attack, it must now move towards lifting the blockade in Gaza as soon
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as possible."
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The killing of civilian activists on board the Mavi Marmara - one of six ships
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in the flotilla - drew worldwide condemnation.
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The Security Council statement was finally agreed after the United States -
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Israel's strongest ally - successfully watered down an earlier wording which
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called for the Israeli action to be condemned "in the strongest terms".
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Some of the harshest criticism came from Turkey, previously seen as Israel's
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main ally in the Muslim world. Many of the activists on the ships - including
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a number of the dead - were Turkish.
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Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu described the action as an act of
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"banditry and piracy" on the high seas and "murder conducted by a state".
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Israel said its troops had been left with no choice after they came under
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attack from activists armed with knives and iron bars when they were dropped
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by helicopter onto the ship.
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