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<div id="divNewsDatetime">PressTV &#8211; Sun Jul 10, 2011 9:6AM</div>
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<div id="divImageDesc">Israeli police officers remove a pro-Palestinian Israeli activist during a small demonstration at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on July 8, 2011.</div>
<div id="divLead">Israeli officials say they hope to expel within 72 hours 118 pro-Palestinian activists that were arrested and denied entry upon their arrival at Tel Aviv&#8217;s Ben Gurion Airport on a peaceful mission.</div>
<p>Israeli officials detained at least 120 activists that were part of the pro-Palestinian &#8220;Welcome to Palestine&#8221; campaign and organized the “flytilla” to Israel after Greece, in collusion with Israel, blocked Freedom Flotilla II aid convoy from delivering relief supplies to the impoverished Gaza Strip.</p>
<p>Israel&#8217;s Interior Ministry official Sabine Hadded said the timetable of the activists&#8217; deportation depends on the airliners&#8217; ability to fly them home, the Associated Press reported on Sunday.</p>
<p>The Israeli official said most of the activists were French, with the others being American, Belgian, Bulgarian, Dutch and Spanish.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon has thanked the European states for helping limit the number of activists arriving at Ben Gurion Airport.</p>
<p>The detained activists are being held at two Israeli jails &#8212; one in Ramleh near Tel Aviv and the other at Beersheva in southern Israel&#8217;s Negev desert.</p>
<p>The visit by the pro-Palestinian activists was aimed at expressing solidarity with Palestinian residents living under Israeli occupation and protesting Israel&#8217;s border policies as well as its total blockade of Gaza, depriving its population of basic living requirements.</p>
<p>Israeli officials preempted the foreign activists&#8217; campaign by releasing a blacklist to international airlines demanding that they block 342 passengers from boarding flights to Israel.</p>
<p>A Gaza-bound naval flotilla has been banned from leaving Greek waters, where some 10 ships are stuck after Athens imposed a blanket ban on the departure of any vessels destined for Gaza.</p>
<p>The activists have condemned the ban, saying Israel has no right to refuse them entry to the occupied Palestinian territories.</p>
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