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Israel reaffirms Gaza naval blockade

Frees 120 activists, Turkey gives deadline to free activists and seeks effective measure against Israel

Reuters, BBC Online, Afp, Ankara/Jerusalem
Israel’s security cabinet on Tuesday said that it regretted the killing of nine people in the interception of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla but called the incident an act of defence against violent provocation.
Israel said it would continue a naval blockade of the Gaza Strip it has imposed as part of a general embargo on the territory's border crossings.
"The cabinet determines that setting limitations on boat traffic to Gaza, ruled by the Hamas terror group, is a clear act of self defence," the statement said, adding that "such was the Israeli army action against the violent provocation at sea."
TUrkey warned yesterday of fresh measures against Israel if it failed to free by the evening hundreds of Turkish activists detained in a deadly raid on aid ships
bound for the Gaza Strip.
Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said he delivered the warning in a meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington Tuesday as he sought her intervention in the crisis over Monday's boarding of the flotilla in international waters in the Mediterranean.
"I expressed our absolute determination on the following issue: if our citizens are not released in 24 hours, by tonight in other words, we will review our ties with Israel entirely," he told reporters here.
"No one has the right to prosecute people kidnapped in international waters,"he said.
Turkish pressure appeared to be instrumental as Israel said it would free all the proPalestinian volunteers and rushed to deport them Wednesday, while Ankara sent three planes to collect its nationals.
Turkey has already recalled its ambassador from Tel Aviv and scrapped plans for
joint military exercises, plunging already poisoned bilateral ties into deep crisis.
Israel has deported more than 120 foreign activists detained after a deadly raid on an aid flotilla trying to break its blockade of Gaza.
Israeli media reports say the families of Israeli diplomats in Turkey have been ordered to leave the country.
TUrkey, formerly a close ally of Israel, has been one of the states most vocal in its condemnation of the raid.
The Turkish parliament yesterday urged the government to implement "effective" measures against Israel over its deadly raid on aid ships bound for Gaza.
The parliament "expects the Turkish government to review our political, military and economic ties with Israel and take the necessary effective measures," read a declaration adopted unanimously in the general assembly.