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Minister: Israel ready for Gaza flotilla scenarios

Minister: Israel ready for Gaza flotilla scenarios
# 29 June 2011 20:45 (UTC +04:00)
Baku – APA. An Israeli Cabinet minister says Israel is "prepared for the worst" in trying to block a flotilla of pro-Palestinian activists planning to breach Israel’s sea blockade of Gaza, APA reports quoting “Associated Press”.
Information Minister Yuli Edelstein urged organizers Wednesday to call off the voyage and deliver their cargo of medicine and construction materials to Gaza via an Israeli port.
The ships are to sail to Gaza from Greece toward the end of the week, and Israel has said it will not let them reach Gaza.
Israel has enforced a Gaza blockade since the Islamic militant group Hamas seized the territory in 2007. Last year, an Israeli raid on a similar flotilla killed nine activists on a Turkish vessel.
Israel has since eased some import restrictions. Edelstein says Gaza gets what it needs by land.
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