\u00a0<\/p>\n
By Ejaz Khan<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Ismail Moola of the Palestine Solidarity Alliance and a spokesman of the Freedom Flotilla Committee spoke to Radio Islam\u2019s Yusuf Moosagie live from Athens this morning, following the capture of the \u201cMarianne\u201d Ship to Gaza\u201d by Israeli Defence force.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cVery sad day for us, we were hoping they would be in Gaza by Now, but the apartheid state has not relented. Marianne has been intercepted.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n This was Freedom Flotilla\u2019s 3rd attempt of Breaking the siege of Gaza and they anticipated Israeli interception as Ismail Moola explains:<\/p>\n We knew Marianne was crossing into dangerous waters, 100 Nautical miles from Gaza Port. She crossed into that area at around 1 am (CAT time)<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n All communications were lost with them at \u00a03 am.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n He explained that the normal procedure would follow :<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n \u201cYes the Boat was Boarded, no casualties reported. The Raid was apparently peaceful\u2026we don\u2019t know if that is the truth as now we are getting the reports from Israeli Press.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n On Mavi Marmara some of our people were killed, and on our second attempt \u00a0our activist were bashed around.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cMarianne will be kept in Ashdod Port.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n Activists will be kept in Prison for 24-48 hours.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n 18 delegates on board, and we now activate the different Embassies.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n Activist will then all be Deported to their countries.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n We await further updates from them now\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n ON South Africa\u2019s representative on the flotilla :<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n \u201cClint De Bruyns is on another boat, not the Marianne, so we are confirming \u00a0NO south Africans were on board.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n Knesset MP Basel Ghattas \u00a0and Tunisia’s former president Moncef Marzouki were on the Marianne.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Is it all over now for the current campaign? \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n \u201cNo, We have Phase 2 , but whether we go ahead with it will be discussed.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n Regardless ,we will never rest until the seige of Gaza is broken in whichever way.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n @ejaz_k<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 By Ejaz Khan \u00a0 Ismail Moola of the Palestine Solidarity Alliance and a spokesman of the Freedom Flotilla Committee spoke to Radio Islam\u2019s Yusuf Moosagie live from Athens this morning, following the capture of the \u201cMarianne\u201d Ship to Gaza\u201d by Israeli Defence force. \u00a0 \u201cVery sad day for us, we were hoping they would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-3X4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-27 00:44:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}