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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 341

Gaza flotilla

Tents housing internally displaced Palestinians stand on the beach in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on May 10, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
August 17, 2024, 12:31 am
Anti-Israel activists seek to break naval blockade on Gaza, deliver humanitarian aid
Participants in Freedom Flotilla Coalition ‘expect to encounter resistance’; 2010 attempt to break blockade ended in death of 10 activists after they attacked Israeli troops
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Portrait of former Supreme Court Justice Jacob Turkel at his home in Jerusalem, April 17, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
May 29, 2023, 8:14 pm
Former Supreme Court justice Yaakov Turkel dies aged 88
Turkel authored several important rulings upholding freedom of expression, and commissions he headed bolstered gay rights and exonerated the IDF over a deadly Gaza flotilla raid
By Jeremy Sharon
Ana Miranda speaks at a rally in Coruña, Spain, July 10, 2020. (Cristina Andina/Getty Images)
February 23, 2023, 9:54 am
Israel bars EU parliament member from entering the country
Officials cite Ana Miranda’s participation in the 2015 ‘Freedom Flotilla III’ attempt to break blockade of the Gaza Strip as reason for refusal
By David Klein
Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda in the courtroom of the International Criminal Court (ICC) during the closing statements of the trial of Bosco Ntaganda, a Congo militia leader, in The Hague, Netherlands, August 28, 2018. (Bas Czerwinski/Pool via AP)
December 3, 2019, 1:48 am
For third time, ICC prosecutor refuses to open probe into Gaza flotilla incident
Pro-Israel activists praise Fatou Bensouda for ‘standing up for law and justice’ as six-year legal saga over Israeli commando raid on the Mavi Marmara likely comes to end
By Raphael Ahren
Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, December 18, 2012. (AP/Robin van Lonkhuijsen, Pool)
September 2, 2019, 3:43 pm
ICC prosecutor ordered to reexamine deadly Gaza flotilla incident
Appellate judges in the Hague reject Fatou Bensouda’s decision to close case into IDF’s 2010 takeover of Mavi Marmara, in which 10 violent pro-Hamas activists were killed
By Mike Corder
Ehud Barak during a press conference in Tel Aviv on July 25, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
August 11, 2019, 9:04 pm
US court rejects appeal by parents who sued Barak over son’s death on flotilla
Federal judge upholds district court dismissal of suit against ex-defense minister, who Furkan Dogan’s family argued was responsible for his death in IDF raid
By ToI Staff
Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda in the courtroom of the International Criminal Court (ICC) during the closing statements of the trial of Bosco Ntaganda, a Congo militia leader, in The Hague, Netherlands, August 28, 2018. (Bas Czerwinski/Pool via AP)
November 22, 2018, 3:55 pm
ICC prosecutor ordered to reexamine Gaza flotilla incident — for the third time
Israeli official fumes over court’s repeated ‘exploitation for political ends,’ as judges reject Fatou Bensouda’s decision to close case after five years
By Raphael Ahren
Palestinian rioters tear down a section of fencing around the northern Gaza border on October 8, 2018. (Screen capture: Quds News)
October 9, 2018, 6:36 pm
IDF says fence destroyed by Gazans was old, not at the border
After videos surface of Palestinians taking apart barrier, military acknowledges the damage was worse than initially described, but maintains there was no mass border breach
By Judah Ari Gross
Palestinian protestors in boats place their national flag on a metal structure at the maritime border with Israel, in the northern Gaza Strip, on October 8, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Said KHATIB)
October 8, 2018, 7:45 pm
Thousands riot at Gaza border, as Navy clashes with Palestinian flotilla
Rioters attack troops with grenades, bombs, rocks and burning tires; dozens of protesters said hurt; Hamas official calls for armed uprising in West Bank
By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff
A Palestinian throws a stone towards Israeli forces during clashes on the beach near the maritime border with Israel, in the northern Gaza Strip, on October 1, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB)
October 1, 2018, 8:47 pm
Dozens said injured in fresh clashes near Gaza security fence
Hamas-run health ministry says 10 wounded by live fire; flotilla turns back after attempt to break maritime blockade as IDF fires warning shots
By ToI Staff
Palestinian boats participate in a protest against the Israeli-Egyptian security blockade of Gaza, in Beit Lahya on the border with Israel in the northern Gaza strip on August 11, 2018. The Israeli Rutenberg power station can be seen in the background. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)
August 11, 2018, 7:33 pm
Gaza flotilla turns back after Israeli navy fires warning shots
Boats were attempting to breach Israel’s security blockade as part of Hamas-led ‘March of Return’ protests
By ToI Staff
Stefan Abrahamsson (Screencapture/Youtube)
August 10, 2018, 5:46 am
Swedish Christian Zionists to sail to Israel on solidarity mission
Stefan Abrahamsson plans to bring activists on his yacht to counter the pro-Palestinian Gaza-bound ships
By JTA
Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom in Hanoi, Vietnam, November 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh)
August 8, 2018, 7:32 pm
Sweden bashes Israel for seizing Gaza-bound boat
As Israel deports 7 Swedish activists detained aboard flotilla, Stockholm says it has been in contact with Jerusalem, demanding ship and cargo be released
By ToI Staff and AFP
A boat intercepted by Israeli navy arrives at Ashdod port, Israel, Sunday, July 29, 2018. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)
July 31, 2018, 11:13 pm
Norway demands answers over seizure of blockade-busting boat
Activists aboard flotilla allege soldiers beat them; IDF responds that ‘reasonable force was employed to overcome the passengers’ resistance’
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: The 'Freedom,' a boat headed to the Gaza Strip in a flotilla defying Israel's blockade, July 2018 (screen capture: Press TV/Twitter)
July 29, 2018, 12:59 am
Seaborne activists challenge Gaza blockade
Three-vessel ‘Freedom Flotilla’ left Sicily on July 21; first boat could arrive as early as Sunday, will likely be intercepted by Israel
By AFP and ToI Staff
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