JERUSALEM (AFP) - The Israeli navy was preparing to stop a Libyan aid ship that was closing in on the Gaza Strip coast on Tuesday, the military said as activists on board said they had been warned to alter course.
"Israeli authorities have given us until midnight tonight (2100 GMT) to change course and head to the (Egyptian) port of El-Arish," Mashallah Zwei, an activist on board told AFP [...]
TRIPOLI (AFP) - A Libyan aid ship headed for Gaza in defiance of an Israeli blockade aims to reach the Palestinian territory on Wednesday, the Kadhafi Foundation organising the mission said on Monday.
"The foundation's team on the vessel has said morale on board is high and that they are preparing to enter Gaza on Wednesday," the charity run by Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's son, Seif al-Islam, [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel on Sunday vowed to prevent a Libyan aid ship from running the Gaza blockade after it appeared to be heading for the besieged enclave despite a flurry of diplomatic efforts to divert it to Egypt.
"Israel will not let the boat reach Gaza," minister without portfolio Yossi Peled told Israel's public radio a day after the 92-metre (302-foot) freighter set sail from th [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Intense diplomatic efforts have likely prevented a Libyan aid ship from trying to breach Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip, the foreign ministry said on Saturday.
"Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman spoke several times in recent days with the foreign ministers of Greece and Moldova and reached understandings with them about dealing with the Libyan ship," a ministry sta [...]
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