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<div class="ViewDetails_Stamp">Published today (updated) 12/07/2011 20:39</div>
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<p><strong>JERUSALEM (AFP) &#8212; Israel on Tuesday expelled 22 foreign pro-Palestinian activists detained after flying into Israel for protests at the weekend, and more were due to leave in the evening, an official said.</strong></p>
<p>Immigration service spokeswoman Sabine Hadad said that those who left during the day were put on flights to Italy, France and Austria.</p>
<p>&#8220;Another 11 are on their way to an Alitalia flight,&#8221; she said. &#8220;There could be more during the night. At the moment we have 23 (still in custody).&#8221;</p>
<p>The detainees were part of the &#8220;Welcome to Palestine&#8221; campaign in which up to 800 people from Europe and the United States planned to fly to Israel and head to the Palestinian territories to visit Palestinian families.</p>
<p>Israeli authorities marshalled diplomatic and security resources to try to head off the incoming activists.</p>
<p>Officials said that by notifying foreign airlines of ticket-holders who would not be admitted to Israel, they had prevented hundreds of people from boarding at their ports of departure.</p>
<p>Of those who managed to arrive, 120 were denied entry to Israel and taken into custody, although a handful were later admitted after signing pledges not to take part in public disorder.</p>
<p>They were held in two detention facilities, one near Tel Aviv, another in the southern Negev, while authorities found flights on which to expel them.</p>
<p>The &#8220;Welcome to Palestine&#8221; campaign took place as a flotilla of ships trying to break a blockade on the Gaza Strip was prevented from leaving Greece.</p>
<p>The timing of the fly-in campaign led some to dub it a &#8220;flytilla,&#8221; although organizers denied their mission was linked to the attempt to run the blockade.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=404667">Source</a></p>
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