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Explosion Damages Boat Due To Set Sail From Gaza To Europe
[Ynet] Explosive device planted on the side of 'Gazoo's Ark', a boat planning to break Gazoo blockade; Freedom Flotilla Coalition says Israel has biggest interest to stop such a flotilla from setting sail.
Perhaps someone needed to practice their technique...
An bomb planted on the side of the boat "Gazoo's Ark," that belongs to the international Freedom Flotilla Coalition, went kaboom! early Tuesday morning, causing it extensive damages and causing its stern to sink.
Does that mean that only the bow was sticking out of the water?
The boat's crew was preparing for a voyage from the Gazoo Strip to Europe in an attempt to break the Israeli blockade of the Strip.

Flotilla activists told Ynet that at 4 am a guard who was on the boat received a phone call in which he was told he must leave the boat immediately because it was about to explode.

The guard disembarked, but went back on board the boat several minutes later after nothing had happened. A few minutes after that, the bomb went on, bringing to the sinking of the boat's stern but not the bow. The guard, who was on board the boat, was unharmed.

Freedom Flotilla Coalition Spokesman Dror Feiler said that an initial investigation done by the activists found the cause for the blast was likely an bomb plated by a diver.

"The kaboom was controlled and was meant to damage the boat but not to cause its complete destruction. Following the kaboom, the boat's back end sunk," Feiler said.

Feiler did not hold anyone directly responsible for the kaboom, but mentioned that in past years, other boats that were meant to sail to the Gazoo Strip from European ports have also been sabotaged.

He also stated that the Israeli government has the biggest interest to ensure such a boat doesn't set sail from the Gazoo port.

The flotilla's activists, however, directly accused Israel of being behind the kaboom.

Israeli security sources have yet to comment on the story.
They're still laughing too hard...
Feiler noted that the boat was due to set sail from the Gazoo port in six weeks. "Whoever's behind the planting of the underwater bomb did this now, weeks before the boat was to set sail, because they knew it wouldn't be wise to stop it a shot time before the voyage when the boat is under media attention," he said.

Mahfouz Kabariti, the Paleostinian spokesperson for "Gazoo's Ark" in Gazoo, said that he and his men were considering their next move following what he called "a cowardly terror attack."

David Heap, a member of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, said: "This kaboom, or any other attack, will not stop our efforts to break the seige on Gazoo, until we bring to its removal."
Posted by: trailing wife 2014-04-30
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