JERUSALEM - Israel on Tuesday (07/12/2011), expelled 42 pro-Palestinian foreign activists who were arrested after flying to Israel to protest at the weekend, an official said."Overall, 44 people have been evicted on Tuesday. (They) to Italy, France, Austria, and England," said a spokesman for the Immigration Service of Israel, Sabine Hadad, told AFP. "Now there are 14 prisoners, mostly French citizens, who planned dipulanglan Wednesday afternoon," he said.
The tahahan was part of the campaign "Welcome to Palestine", in which as many as 800 people of Europe and the United States had planned to fly to Israel and the Palestinian territories in order to visit Palestinian families.
Officials said, by telling foreign airlines on the ticket holders will not be allowed into Israel, they have managed to prevent hundreds of people on a plane to Israel in their departure airports. Of the people who are trying to come it, 120 people have been denied entry into Israel and detained even though few of them later received after signing an agreement not to take part in public disturbances.
They were held in two detention facilities, one near Tel Aviv, the other in the northern Negev in Israel, while authorities search for flights to transport them back.
The campaign "Welcome to Palestine" occurs when the fleet of ships trying to break the blockade of Gaza prevented from leaving Greece. Timing the campaign to fly into Israel-it makes some people called him "flytilla" although organizers denied their mission was linked to efforts to stop the blockade.
No comments:
Post a Comment