Urgent call from journalists and television presenters on board the Freedom Flotilla

5/31/2010

We the journalists, reporters and television photographers on board the Freedom Flotilla coming from various European ports to Gaza, regard with utmost gravity the verbal threats and attacks which took place against us in recent hours from the Israeli government and its forces in recent hours.

We wish to draw the attention to everyone that we have undertaken a reporting exercise in a professional manner to cover the Flotilla which carries humanitarian aid, medicine and other necessities for civil reconstruction in the devastated Gaza Strip.

By this urgent call we hold the Israeli government and its armed forces full responsibility for any violation against our persons and our safety.

We warn in these early hours of Monday 31st May, of the increase military activity by the Israelis. We await our governments Turkey, Greece, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Bulgaria Europe, USA and several Arab countries and trade unions to undertake urgent action towards these developments.

Journalists, correspondents, reporters and television photographers on board the ‘Freedom Flotilla’

On international waters to the Gaza Strip, 31 May 2010