Despite the Egyptian revolution, which ousted Israeli ally and former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, and despite Israel’s claim to have eased the blockade on Gaza following last year’s bloody clashes on the ill-fated Mavi Marmara flotilla, the coastal territory’s economy remains crippled thanks to both countries.
International attention will once again focus on the siege of Gaza when the Mavi Marmara makes a second attempt at the end of June to bypass Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza’s coastline.
Last May, 10 Turkish peace activists were shot dead, some at point-blank range, by Israeli commandos when the flotilla tried to deliver desperately needed aid to the besieged territory.
