Israel anticipates the arrival of the US JLOTS ships, slated to build a pier off the coast of Gaza, to arrive on April 28, according to assessments seen today by The Times of Israel.
Jerusalem also expects the Turkish flotilla from the Freedom Flotilla Coalition to set out to Gaza on April 15, and to arrive off the coast three days later, an Israeli official tells The Times of Israel.
One of the 12 organizations involved in the coalition is the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), which organized the 2010 flotilla in which a deadly fight broke out on the Mavi Marmara between IHH members and IDF commandos.
The FFC, which has nowhere to dock in Gaza even if the Israeli Navy were to allow it through, said it will be bringing on board “hundreds of international human rights observers to challenge the ongoing illegal Israeli blockade.”
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