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<p>Fri Jul 8, 2011 5:19AM</p>
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<div id="divLead">Israeli authorities have served international airlines with a blacklist of 300 individuals in a bid to block the journey of pro-Palestinian activists into occupied Palestine.</div>
<p>The Interior Ministry of the Tel Aviv regime has ordered foreign airlines not to allow the blacklisted activists from boarding flights bound for Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported.</p>
<p>Due to pro-Palestinian activities of these (blacklisted) people, &#8220;it was decided to refuse their entry in accordance with our authority according to the Law of Entry to Israel 1952&#8230; In light of the above-mentioned, you are required not to board them on your flights to Israel. Failure to comply with this directive would result in a delay on the flight and their return on the same flight,&#8221; read a letter sent to the airlines by Tel Aviv&#8217;s Interior Ministry.</p>
<p>Hundreds of mostly European pro-Palestinian activists are expected to arrive in Israel within the framework of an initiative called &#8220;Flightilla.&#8221;</p>
<p>The effort is considered as a complement to the Gaza-bound flotilla II relief aid convoy, which has been hindered on numerous instances from reaching the impoverished enclave that has been subjected to a brutal Israeli siege since 2007, to deliver much-needed humanitarian supplies to its population.</p>
<p>According to French activists involved in the &#8220;Welcome to Palestine&#8221; event, Malev Hungarian Airlines has already barred around 20 people from boarding a flight from Paris to Tel Aviv through Budapest.</p>
<p>Additionally, French authorities have also barred eight activists from boarding flights to Tel Aviv.</p>
<p>The &#8220;Flightilla&#8221; takes place after a Gaza-bound naval flotilla was prohibited from leaving Greek waters, where about 10 boats are trapped following a sudden decision by Athens to impose a blanket ban on departure of any vessels destined for Gaza.</p>
<p>Prior to the Greek measure against the aid flotilla, several of the Gaza-bound vessels were disabled by saboteurs, widely suspected to be Israeli intelligence elements.</p>
<p>The 10-ship humanitarian flotilla was supposed to set sail for the Gaza Strip in early July in a bid to break Israel&#8217;s five-year blockade on the coastal territory, home to 1.5 million Palestinians.</p>
<p>The Tel Aviv regime has ordered the Israeli navy to use all possible means to prevent the incoming international aid flotilla from reaching the economically-distressed Gaza Strip, but the Gaza Freedom Flotilla II organizers insist that they will push ahead with their aid mission.</p>
<p>The Israeli military attacked last year&#8217;s Freedom Flotilla in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea on May 31, 2010, killing nine Turks aboard the Turkish-flagged MV Mavi Marmara and injuring about 50 other activists that were onboard the six-ship Gaza-bound aid convoy.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has visited the Bulgarian capital city of Sofia in an attempt to make sure that Bulgaria would not support a September vote at the UN General Assembly for Palestinian statehood.</p>
<p>However, Netanyahu has reportedly failed to win a commitment by Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov regarding the recognition of a Palestinian state.</p>
<p>MAB/PM/MB</p>
<p><a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail/188109.html">Source</a></p>
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