'Vorsprung durch technik' - Israel to Build Underground Wall Around Gaza.

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Report: Israel to Build Underground Wall Around Gaza. (Matzav).

Israel’s defense establishment’s plan to build a concrete wall tens of meters underground as well as above ground along the Gaza border was revealed by Yediot Achronot this morning, Behind the News reports.

It has previously been estimated that such a project would cost tens of billions of shekels. However, under the new plan the construction costs are estimated to reach NIS 2.2 billion.

Behind the News reports that the wall will stretch along the 60 miles of the southern border around the Gaza Strip.

A senior Defense Ministry official on Thursday announced at a press briefing that the next confrontation with Hamas would be the last one. The question of how this announcement is consistent with a plan to build a wall, which is essentially a defensive program, is open to interpretation.

New 'Turkish' aid flotilla to sail for Hamas terrorists by year-end, no military involved.

If the 'Gods' don't sink it or burn it. :)

New 'Turkish' aid flotilla to sail for Hamas terrorists by year-end, no military involved. (HD).

A coalition of activists said on Aug. 12 they would send a flotilla of ships to break Israel's siege of Gaza by the end of 2014, fours years after a similar campaign ended in a deadly raid by Israeli commandos.

"We plan to send the flotilla during 2014," the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, which includes activists from at least 10 countries, said IHH in Istanbul.        

The statement was made at a joint conference hosted by Turkish relief agency Humanitarian Relief Foundation (İHH), which sponsored the first flotilla of ships carrying aid to Gaza that was raided by Israeli commandos in 2010.        

The group did not give a specific date or an estimate on how many vessels or people would participate.        
The İHH, which many believe has close ties with the Turkish government, is one of the members of the coalition, which includes groups from Greece, Norway and Sweden.
      

The boats would sail at the same time from different ports around the world, carrying humanitarian aid as well as Palestinian commercial products, it added.        

"We will try to form this flotilla with the aim of showing that international community cannot sit and look away when attacks on civilians and crimes against humanity are committed," said Canadian activist Ehab Lotayef.        
He added that the coalition would not seek support from any government and there would not be any military escort.

Turkish IHH say new flotilla coming to challenge Israeli blockade of Gaza, with Turkish Troops?

Turkish IHH say new flotilla coming to challenge Israeli blockade of Gaza, with Turkish Troops? (HD).

A Turkish aid group said on Aug. 11 it would send ships again to challenge the Israeli blockade of Gaza, four years after Israeli commandos stormed its flotilla bound for the Palestinian territory and killed 10 people.
  
The Humanitarian Relief Foundation (İHH) said in an e-mailed statement that members of a "coalition" of pro-Palestinian activists from 12 countries had met in Istanbul at the weekend and decided to launch a convoy "in the shadow of the latest Israeli aggression on Gaza," referring to the latest, month-long war. Fighting has abated under a 72-hour ceasefire deal.
   
"The Freedom Flotilla Coalition affirmed that, as most governments are complicit, the responsibility falls on civil society to challenge the Israeli blockade on Gaza," it said.
   
An IHH spokeswoman did not elaborate. The group will hold a news conference on Tuesday, she said. Hmmm....I'm sure Herr President will be willing to send Turkish troops along.
 
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Nato 'Ally' Erdogan pushing for full scale war with Israel, plans to break Gaza maritime blockade with troops.

NATO 'Ally' Erdogan pushing for full scale war with Israel wants to break maritime blockade with troops. (MEMO).

The Turkish humanitarian relief organisation (IHH) is currently organising a "Freedom Flotilla II" which will carry humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip, IHH chairman Bulent Yildrim said Thursday.

In statements to Gulf Online, Yildrim said that his organisation has embarked on legal procedures and paperwork required to obtain a permit for the trip. As soon as a final permit is issued, the IHH along with other international organisations will immediately set up the convoy.

The chairman of IHH, a major organiser of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla I, said that Turkish army troops will accompany the ships to protect it from any potential attack, pointing out that his organisation demanded the government to provide protection for them as Turkish citizens.

Maze Keheil, the president of the European Campaign for Lifting the Siege on Gaza, confirmed his campaign's intention to take part in the new flotilla, as it did in first one in 2010.Hmmmm.....He really thinks the patriots will protect him from Israeli nukes?

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Collection of tweets from journalists inside Gaza confirming that Hamas uses human shields

Collection of tweets from journalists inside Gaza confirming that Hamas uses human shields.(JPost).

Several journalists from around the world reported seeing rockets fired from civilian areas in Gaza in recent days, and received threatening tweets in return accusing them of “informing” the IDF.

On Wednesday, Peter Stefanovic of Australia’s Channel Nine News tweeted: “Hamas rockets just launched over our hotel from a site about two hundred metres away. So a missile launch site is basically next door.”

An account called @ThisIsGaza said this was Stefanovic’s fourth time “passing and fabricating information to Israel... from GAZA” and threatened to sue him.

Another account, @longitude0 wrote: “You are a cretin. Are you working for the IDF” and “in WWII spies got shot.”

Financial Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief John Reed reported seeing “two rockets fired toward Israel from near al-Shifa hospital, even as more bombing victims were brought in.”

Shifa, in Gaza City, is the main medical facility in the Strip.

In response, @Saritah_91 tweeted: “We’ll hold you responsible if Israel uses your tweet to bomb the hospital & then justify it.”Read and see the full story here.