Organizers of a Gaza-bound flotilla that was intercepted by the Israeli navy complained Monday that they were victims of an act of piracy, while Israeli officials denounced the pro-Palestinian campaign as hypocritical and unnecessary.
The Marianne of Gothenburg, a Swedish fishing trawler leading a small flotilla headed for the Gaza Strip to protest Israel’s naval blockade of the Palestinian coastal enclave, was intercepted early Monday by Israeli naval commandos 115 miles from Gaza in international waters.