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July 11, 2011

Israel Begins Deportation of "Flytilla" Activists 
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Israel has begun deporting activists attempting to enter the occupied
West Bank as part of a so-called "flytilla" operation. Thirty-six people
were deported from Israel’s Ben-Gurion International Airport to
Frankfurt, Germany, Sunday. Another group is expected to be deported on
a Geneva-bound flight today. The "flytilla" term is a nod to the
humanitarian flotilla that attempted to enter the occupied Gaza Strip by
sea last week. Lufthansa airlines previously refused to fly a group of
pro-Palestinian activists to Tel Aviv because their names appeared on a
"black list" provided by Israeli authorities, but a second group managed
to arrive in the country on a direct flight from Frankfurt.



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