July 19, 2011 
[ 19/07/2011 – 11:21 AM ]
GAZA, (PIC)– The government in Gaza has expressed strong condemnation after Israeli naval forces surrounded the lone vessel that slipped past Greece’s Gaza flotilla ban, calling the move ”new Zionist maritime piracy”, and placing some of the blame on the United Nations.
Three naval ships have intercepted the French yacht, dubbed Dignite – Al-Karama, and towed it into Israel’s Ashdod port with 16 activists and several journalists on board.
Tahir al-Nunu, a spokesman for the government in Gaza, has told the AFP that the UN must take some of the responsibility as it has yet to take sanctions on Israel over its lethal attack on the Mavi Marmara ship that joined the first Freedom Flotilla last year, which has lured Israel into continuing the same ”illegal and aggressive approach”.
Israeli soldiers intercepted the first Freedom Flotilla in late May 2010 and attacked the Mavi Marmara ship, killing nine and injuring many on board.
Nunu called on the international community to take a ”a clear position”.
He wondered: ”Is the Gaza siege legal and moral or not? The answer is certainly that it is neither legal nor moral.”
He said the matter calls for ”a serious stand against Israel, away from political hypocrisy and double standards”.
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