IDF Soldiers board the vessels en-route to the Gaza Strip

A short while ago, Israel Navy soldiers boarded the vessels which were en-route to the Gaza Strip, attempting to break the maritime security blockade that is in accordance with international law.
The boarding was carried out following numerous calls to the activists onboard and during different points at sea. Following their unwillingness to cooperate, and after ignoring calls to divert to the port of Ashdod, the decision was made to board the vessels and lead them there.

Contact was made between the Israel Navy and the vessels Tahrir and Saorise which are sailing towards the Gaza Strip. The purpose of this attempt is to create a provocation against the State of Israel, to break the maritime security blockade on Gaza, and to undermine Israel's security.

The IDF Chief of Staff ordered the Navy to board the vessels-should they refuse our radio requests

According to international law, it is lawful for Israel to impose a naval blockade on the Gaza Strip because it is currently in a state of armed conflict with the Hamas terrorist organization, the ruling entity of the Gaza Strip (see the law of blockade for more information). The Hamas terrorist organization is designated as a terrorist entity by the US, UK, EU and state of Israel.
Since taking over the Gaza Strip in 2007, the Hamas terrorist organization has launched thousands of rockets into major Israeli population centers, populated by one million Israeli civilians. During the last decade, Hamas has orchestrated a long series of suicide bombings, killing hundreds of Israeli civilians. The Hamas terrorist organization continues to smuggle rockets into Gaza via the sea and underground tunnels.

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[kiki7772001]

The palestinians teach their children to murder from a young age, Israel has every right to defend their people aginst those who wish them harm. The decendants of Ishmael (Arabs) God said would be a wild ass of a man who would get along with no one not even their brothers. Muslims are liers and murderers period and Israel has every right to defend themselves.

[yaron3534]

@Cefuroxx

"Israel insists that it is in a state of armed conflict with gaza yet complains that they are "terrorists" for firing rockets into Israel....you can't have it both ways moishe. Update your hasbara."(Cef)

-Sweetie, when a religiously indoctrinated bearded loon is launching a rocket to terrorize my family - he is indeed a terrorist. Only terrorists & mothers in law terrorize

-Get it, sweetie?

-So simple that even dim witted hated filled mongrels such as yourself should get it...

[JerrySPsy]

@lumpfish99 A famous quote regarding the UN's bias against Israel and its favor towards fascist Muslim countries, a direct result of the large majority that the 52 Muslim countries have against the one and only Jewish country, is the following: "If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions."-- Abba Eban

[JerrySPsy]

@lumpfish99 First off - I didn't lose any argument at all. Secondly, if you don't think your coming on here and dredging up a decades old incident (that no one knows anything conclusive about) just to demonize Israel and the Jews smacks of anti-semitism then you need to do a little self-examination of your head.

[lumpfish99]

@JerrySPsy predictable is you crying anti-semite when you lose an arguement!! lol! buy loser!

[lumpfish99]

@JerrySPsy The UN calls it occupied....

[JerrySPsy]

@lumpfish99 Jews have lived continuously in Israel for countless generations. The holiest sites within Judaism are there and the patriarchs of Judaism are buried there. Jews never denied the Arabs living there and bought land and homes from Arabs & Turks - & Jewish agencies bought huge tracts of land. The only reason you might call it occupied is that the Arabs tried to annihilate all the Jews & gambled with much of their land - and LOST! The consequences of losing a war are a bitch.

[JerrySPsy]

@lumpfish99 My point is that you know jack shit about what really happened with the USS Liberty and your lame ass has to dredge up that tired old story just to defame Jews and demonize Israel every chance you get. So typical of anti-semites such as yourself. There is a usual progression with people like you and I can just hear you say "well what about the King David Hotel, what about Jesus, what about the Protocols, what about Gaza? So damn predictable!

[lumpfish99]

@JerrySPsy Thats funny!! yet israel want to make claims rights on land citing occupation rights 3000 years ago!!

[lumpfish99]

@JerrySPsy ...and your point?

[JerrySPsy]

@obamabyu Ah - how many times have we heard about how you Arabs would destroy Israel? Yet each time you get your collective asses handed to you in shameful defeat - even when you get a number of other Arab countries to join in against tiny Israel. I guess Allah is on the side of the Jews! So get out of Mecca and circumsize your pecca before it's too late.

[JerrySPsy]

@lumpfish99 And if you think that scenario is preposterous then just consider that the US did the same thing in 1898 when it engineered the start of the Spanish American War by blowing up its own battleship the USS Maine, in Havana Harbor.

How far back to you want to go in dredging up the past? RIP all the victims of the Christian Crusades, the Holocaust victims, the victims of Arab massacres, etc.