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June 18, 2010

Flotilla Survivors Speak Out at New York Event
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Here in New York, survivors of the Israeli assault on the aid flotilla
spoke out at a public forum in a Brooklyn church. British organizer
Kevin Ovenden, who was aboard the Mavi Marmara ship where Israel killed
nine activists, said the siege should be completely lifted.

Kevin Ovenden: "It’s very interesting when you look what they say
they’ll allow in now that have not been allowed in for four years.
Children’s toys are some of them. But the construction goods and, above
all, the free movement of people and of goods and of capital, which is
critical for the development of Gaza and Palestine as a free and
independent entity, is something that they’re not allowed—prepared
to happen. And we need to give a clear answer that nothing less than the
full lifting of the siege will do; anything else is a redefining of the
prison."



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