{"id":371952,"date":"2018-08-03T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/israel-wreaks-terror-on-another-harmless-mercy-ship\/"},"modified":"2018-08-03T13:54:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T12:54:00","slug":"israel-wreaks-terror-on-another-harmless-mercy-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/israel-wreaks-terror-on-another-harmless-mercy-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Wreaks Terror on Another Harmless Mercy Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>How revealing! How ironic!<\/p>\n<p>It is Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s misfortune to be surrounded by witless blabbermouths whose unbridled remarks are a gift to Israel lobby propagandists. And while mainstream media in the UK were, as usual, whipping up an anti-Semitism ruckus orchestrated against the Labour Party leader, Israel was busy committing yet another outrage on the high seas against a humanitarian aid vessel peacefully carrying urgently-needed medical supplies for the desperate citizens of blockaded Gaza.<\/p>\n<p><em>SOSjustfuture4Palestine<\/em> issued a statement saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Israeli Occupation Forces violently attacked our Norwegian flagged boat <em>Al Awda<\/em> (\u2018The Return\u2019) as she was in international waters\u2026. Armed, masked soldiers boarded <em>Al Awda<\/em> without permission. They assaulted several unarmed participants by hitting them and using tasers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Reuters (Oslo) reported that the Norwegian Foreign Affairs Ministry demanded the Israeli authorities clarify the circumstances around the seizure of the vessel and the legal basis for the intervention. Israel\u2019s Foreign Ministry declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Head of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Zaher Birawi, has said he\u2019s holding Israel fully responsible for the safety of the activists, and stressed that Israel will be prosecuted for the \u201ccrime of kidnapping\u201d the Freedom Flotilla ship and its activists, who did not impose a threat to Israel\u2019s security.<\/p>\n<p>British media and Government are deaf, blind and dumb to the enormity of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/08\/israel-wreaks-terror-on-another-harmless-mercy-ship\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How revealing! How ironic! It is Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s misfortune to be surrounded by witless blabbermouths whose unbridled remarks are a gift to Israel lobby propagandists. And while mainstream media in the UK were, as usual, whipping up an anti-Semitism ruckus orchestrated against the Labour Party leader, Israel was busy committing yet another outrage on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-371952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}