Flotilla Raid

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  Israel Seized Gaza-Bound Ship With Greta Thunberg On Board. Can It Do That?

  Israeli naval forces, far from the country's shores, intercepted and seized a Gaza-bound ship carrying international activists, including Greta Thunberg, in an early morning raid Monday.

• Barack Obama brokers Israel-Turkey rapprochement

  Israel apologised to Turkey on Friday for killing nine Turkish citizens in a 2010 naval raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla and the two feuding U.S. allies agreed to normalise relations in a surprise breakthrough announced by U.S. President Barack Obama.

• Israeli PM: Turkey looked for a fight on ship

  Israel's prime minister defended the deadly commando raid on an international flotilla protesting the Gaza blockade in opening testimony before an internal inquiry commission Monday, and suggested Turkey had sought the violent confrontation on board.Benjamin Netanyahu told the commission that Ankara had rejected Israel's prior appeals to halt the f...

• Israel succumbs for UN probe into Gaza flotilla raid

  Succumbing to an international investigation for its army's action for the first time, Israel on Monday agreed for a UN probe into the bloody May 31 raid by its commandos on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, a development described by UN chief Ban Ki-moon as "unprecedented."Israeli naval commandos, airdropped on a Turkish aid ship deck to enforce their co...

• Probe blames Israeli navy for deadly flotilla raid: Report

  An internal probe by the military has found serious errors by the Israeli navy while preparing and carrying out the deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in which nine Turkish activists were killed, sparking a global condemnation of the Jewish state, a media report said on Monday.

• Israel ease curbs on 'civilian' goods into Gaza

  Israel's cabinet on Sunday gave its approval to ease the three-year land blockade of the Gaza Strip to allow all "civilian" goods into the enclave in a bid to quell mounting international criticism following a bloody sea raid on an aid flotilla bound for the Hamas-run territory.

• Israeli raid on aid flotilla had 'serious defects': Probe

  The bloody raid by Israel's naval commandos on the Gaza-bound aid flotilla last month suffered from "serious defects", including inadequate preparation and lack of sufficient intelligence, an internal probe has concluded.

• Lifting Gaza blockade risky: Militants have 5,000 rockets says Israeli security chief

  A top Israeli security official is warning that lifting Israel's naval blockade of Gaza could pose a grave threat to the Jewish state.

• Gaza flotilla attack: Israel rejects Ban's call for global probe panel

  Israel on Sunday rejected UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon's call to establish an international panel of inquiry into its raid on the Gaza-bound flotilla last Monday that left nine people dead.

• Israel seeks 'new ways' to supply Gaza, official says

  While still insisting that its blockade of Gaza is essential to its security, the Israeli government is now shifting its position, "exploring new ways" of allowing goods to reach the coastal enclave, an Israeli official said Thursday.