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Every time Israel intercepts a humanitarian mission to Gaza, force is used. In May 2010, it included murdering nine Mavi Marmara activists, brutally beating dozens of others, and imprisoning them for days.
Estelle was lawlessly seized. It was forcibly taken to Israel's port, Ashdod. The fate of those on board is unknown. On October 22, Press TV interviewed Canadian Boat to Gaza activist David Heap.
In 2011, he experienced Israeli brutality firsthand. He was brutally beaten, arrested, detained, and prevented from contacting his family by phone for days. He was imprisoned for six days. Perhaps Estelle activists are being treated the same way.
He said the "last information we have was when they were being boarded. From that point, all our communications were cut off.""As always - as was our experience last year - when the Israeli military makes these moves, they always cut off communications so that the world is unable to witness what they're doing."
"This was our experience last year. I was on The Tahrir sailing. We were stopped at 45 nautical miles, and we had lost communications at that point as well."
"We are very concerned about all of our friends and shipmates on board."
"There was a Canadian parliamentarian on board as well as parliamentarians from several European countries and volunteers from many countries as well and we are very concerned about all of them particularly because we don't have news of what has become of them."
Parliamentarians included Spain's Ricardo Sixto Iglesias, Sweden's Sven Britton, Norway's Aksel Hagen, Greece's Dimitris Kodelas, and former Canadian lawmaker, Jim Manley. He's now in his late 70s.
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