(Ha'aretz) Anshel Pfeffer - "There was no justification for the flotilla, because there was no humanitarian crisis in Gaza," IDF Maj.-Gen. Eitan Dangot, the coordinator of government activities in the territories, told the Israeli committee investigating the flotilla incident on Tuesday. Dangot said that Gazans have all the goods necessary to maintain a basic lifestyle. "There isn't hunger in Gaza, now or in the past," he said. According to Dangot, the Mavi Marmara, the ship on which nine Turkish activists were killed during clashes with Israeli naval commandos, did not bring any humanitarian supplies. He told the committee that ten days before the flotilla incident, he met with the Turkish ambassador in Israel and suggested to him that the aid be delivered to the Israeli port of Ashdod, where it could be speedily transferred to Gaza.
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