Obviously it is going to be confiscated and all people detained. But they would still make their point.
Even the name of this ship has a story behind it. “Rachel Corrie”.
Defiant activist ship steams on towards Gaza
Friday, 04 Jun, 2010
JERUSALEM: The Rachel Corrie activist ship kept its course for a Saturday arrival in Gaza, or confrontation, as world anger simmered over Israel’s deadly raid on an earlier blockade-busting bid.
“We are not afraid,” Irish Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire told Ireland’s RTE state radio by satellite phone from aboard the aid-laden ship.
“We started out to deliver this cargo to the people of Gaza and to break the siege of Gaza, that is what we want to do,” the 66-year-old said as the vessel steamed towards the impoverished Palestinian enclave.
The MV Rachel Corrie was just hours from Gaza but the 15 aboard, Irish and Malaysian activists, four Indonesian crew and a Scottish captain, did not intend to leave international waters and run the Israeli gauntlet until after daybreak Saturday, organisers said.
With Ireland’s prime minister warning sternly that the ship must be allowed to reach Gaza, the activists have put Israel in a tight spot at a time when it already faces a serious diplomatic crisis over Monday’s botched raid in which its commandos killed nine Turkish activists aboard a Gaza-bound flotilla.
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Israel has warned it will stop the blockade-busting bid by Rachel Corrie, a 1,200-tonne cargo ship named after a US activist killed in 2003 as she tried to prevent an Israeli bulldozer from razing a Palestinian home.
On Friday it reiterated its offer, already rejected by the organisers, to deliver the goods to Gaza overland if the ship unloads in the Israeli port of Ashdod.
But Maguire insisted the activists “have no intention of going to Ashdod which is in Israel.”She said the 1.5 million people were living under “**a cruel siege.””Our concern is to try to open up the people of Gaza to the world,” **she said.