Tag: YNet

  • Israel to deport peace activists sailing to Gaza

    Efrat Weiss | YNet News 1 July 2009 Israel is planning to deport within the next few days the 21 peace activists who arrived on a boat from Cyprus with the intention of entering the Gaza Strip. An Israeli Navy unit boarded their boat and escorted it to Ashdod port. Immigration police will transport the…

  • Israeli Navy takes control of aid boat headed for Gaza

    Ali Waked & Anat Shalev | YNet News 30 June 2009 At around noon Tuesday the Israeli Navy intercepted and took control of a boat that had set sail for the Gaza Strip with three tons of medical supplies, Palestinian sources said, adding that the Navy jammed the boat’s radio signals. The IDF Spokesperson’s Office…

  • YNet News: ‘Palestinians: IDF sanctions land theft’

    Aviad Glickman | YNet News 30 June 2009 Two residents of the West Bank Palestinian village of Qadum filed a High Court petition against the Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday asking that it overturn a military appellate board decision and order a Kedumim settler who they claim invaded their land to return it to them.…