The attack on the Freedom Flottille last May 31 relived in the words of a witness. Angela Lano, one of the few Italian journalists on the ships laden with humanitarian aid to Gaza has retraced his dramatic experience during an evening organized at the house of the people of Lilliput Pozzale by the Network on Oct. 29. The journalist presented his book on the occasion Towards Gaza. Live from Freedom Flottille ".
" The first thing I would like it to be clearly stated is that the eight- ships, then you become because of technical problems, were loaded with humanitarian aid, wheelchairs, food, clothing and prefabricated houses, which are necessary for reconstruction in the strip, molten lead after the operation in December 2008. There was absolutely no kind of weapons on board, and everything is documented on my shots and several other colleagues. This material is the only one we managed to save, because they left Cyprus, everything else has been arrested by the Israeli army. " The incident of unprecedented violence that the world has witnessed a few months ago has been interpreted in very different ways, often altering the points of view made with tainted by bias and factionalism. "The memories of that night-continued-are similar to those of a film fantasy-horror," we were attacked in 75 miles from Israel, which is fully in international waters by masked people, coming from ships and helicopters. On my ship there were seven injuries, including serious commander who was kicked and punched, after he had tried to prevent the soldiers to take control of the cockpit. From our ship, we journalists were trying to keep shooting that happened in the meantime and saw what was going on Mavi Marmara (the ship in which there were nine deaths, ndr) ".
The story continued with the memory of his stay in prison: "They treated us like criminals, we have seized cameras, cameras, everything, not caring of our proposals on press freedom. We could not call home to reassure our loved ones and turn to the embassies that have arrived later. One of the most amazing things was that they wanted then we signed an admission of guilt, which of course we did. We must surely thank Turkey, which has tried its utmost to make us fall in their own country. "
In all this we can say that it was perhaps the first time that Israel, according to the Lano, could not hide their crimes, showing the world how he treats "his opponents" and a reflection of the Palestinians themselves every day. "Just in the prisons we learned what had happened on the Mavi Marmara and for the first time we realized that we had lost and won at the same time. Lost because besides not being able to bring our help to the inhabitants of Gaza, crippled because of the embargo, we have suffered heavy casualties but won nine, because we had unleashed the world. For the first time the entire international community had seen with his own eyes how does "democracy" Israeli ". The Freedom Flottille , not at all discouraged by the facts, rather, with a long waiting list of people who want to join, probably will leave Gaza at a time next spring. We hope that you get there.
This article also appeared on the magazine Vice Versa in November
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