Richard Levy & Kathy Kelly Join US Peace Activists to Sail to Gaza In Humanitarian Flotilla

Описание: DemocracyNow.org - Dozens of Americans hope to set sail this week on a U.S.-flagged ship, "The Audacity of Hope," as part of an international flotilla which aims to challenge Israel's embargo of the Gaza Strip. Palestinian solidarity activists are setting sail from a number of ports just over a year after Israeli forces killed nine activists on an aid boat called the Mavi Marmara, which was part of the first such international flotilla. Democracy Now! interviews passengers of the U.S. boat, New York labor attorney Richard Levy and peace activist, Kathy Kelly. Israel says it will again use force to stop the aid flotilla from reaching Gaza. Levy says the flotilla's challenge to Israel's embargo is legal, and that it is the blockade that is illegal. "It is a violation of the Geneva accords to occupy a country as has been done here through the control of all its borders, and then block supplies, block people from moving in and out," Levy says.

To download the podcast, read the transcript, and for more reports on last year's Gaza aid flotilla on Democracy Now!, visit http://www.democracynow.org/2011/6/20...

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