Italian flotilla journalist: My credit card was used after IDF confiscated it

[Recursion]

An Italian journalist who was detained by the Israel Defense Forces following the raid on the Gaza-bound flotilla says his credit card was used to purchase items after it was confiscated by the Israeli authorities.

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After the Israel Navy took over the boat, he said, the soldiers searched every passenger and confiscated everything they found. "They took two cameras, microphones, a stand and other equipment from me and my photographer. They took one of the cameras as I was taking photographs," says Luppichini, who was working for Italy's RAI-3 television and an Italian-Swiss television channel when he was detained.

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A few days ago Luppichini discovered that while he was confined in Be'er Sheva and after he was back in Italy - a day after his deportation - purchases were made with his credit card, which the Israeli authorities had confiscated.

One purchase was from a vending machine in Tel Aviv for about NIS 10 on June 2, he says. Another purchase, for NIS 240, was made in Gedera's Village Market - while Luppichini himself was in Bologna, Italy.
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http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/italian-flotilla-journalist-my-credit-card-was-used-after-idf-confiscated-it-1.295493

[Arrowhead2k1]

1. Ah credit card fraud. The least of the IDFs crimes, but a crime nonetheless! nt

[EFerrari]

2. Thanks. I read this story and then lost it

and had been unable to find it again.

[ConsAreLiars]

3. The brutal state-sponsored terrorists not only killed nine and shot dozens more and still hold 6 as

captives, they stole millions of dollars of personal property as well as seizing all the aid cargo. I'm sure the pawn shops and net marketplaces are getting all sorts of loot from the criminals who participated in this gang action.

Anyone who uses 'moral' or 'honorable' in describing the IDF or that state should do so knowing that insanity is is not a good thing, and being irrational and unable to see reality is not a good coping skill.

If the murderers wanted the truth of their actions known (self defense or some other laughable blather) they would put all the seized data -- photos, videos, audio -- into the public domain and return that property to its owners.

They don't want the truth known, and that is why they confiscated everything but the clothes being worn. This act alone is pretty much an admission that they wanted to hide the facts about the atrocities they committed in this incident, just as they hide evidence in other cases. Crazed and cowardly mass murderers are destroying all the evidence right now. And then they will 'investigate' themselves, using whatever few carefully edited pieces of tape they choose.

[henank]

4. My goodness

What a lot of falsehoods in one little comment.

Which captives from the flotilla are being held by Israel? Links and details please.

Which millions of personal property were stolen by Israel in the flotilla operation? Who was even sailing with millions in personal property?

Israel has brought all the aid on the ships to Ashdod to be transported to Gaza. But guess what? Who is not allowing the aid to be brought in?

Why, it's Hamas of course

And who else doesn't want the blockade to be breached? Why, it's Mahmoud Abbas of course.

"that is why they confiscated everything but the clothes being worn". Funny how there was a picture of Mairead Maguire shows her descending the gangplank holding her suitcase.

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[TheMadMonk]

6. 500 people times a couple of cameras, phones, etc quickly adds up to millions.

Particularly when it's production quality equipment as some of it was. Won't claim it as gospel, but my understanding when released, it was with passport and very little else.


ARE not currently held. WERE taken prisoner in an illegal act of piracy in international waters. WERE illegally held prisoner. DID have personal possessions stolen in that act of piracy.

Perhaps these people were going to do something illegal. Once inside waters actually legally under Israeli control that would have been a given. However, the ONLY people who actually broke any laws were the Israelis. Even if some on the ships did defend themselves, it makes no difference whatsoever. They would have been entirely within their legal rights to kill every single boarder, and sink or destroy any craft that fired upon them.

Refusing to let it in? Or refusing to aquiesce to Israeli conditions attached to it being allowed in? I don't actually know which, but there is certainly a difference.

A suitcase containing what? I'll lay odds it was significantly less than when she packed it. A little poetic license covers that no problem. Clothes on their back, or nothing but the clothing they took with them. Bugger all in it really.

Nothing can put a good light on the behaviour of the Israelis. They could have done exactly the same thing inside waters they control. The rest of the world might still have had words to say, but it would have been words only no one could have found actual fault.

Israel deliberately did this out in international waters to reinforce a message that they have been sending for quite some time. Israel will do as it damned well pleases and will be constrained by neither international opinion nor law. One official commenting on the eviction of 12 or 1600 families in East Jerusalem a few months ago made it even clearer. "We are God's Chosen." "We do not care what the rest of the world thinks." "We will do as we choose."

[lumpy]

7. The apologists are not making any headway trying to cover up

The IDF's act of piracy. Their statements are going beyond ridiculous. Desperation is a knotty problem.

[EFerrari]

8. There are still six people who are not accounted for.

Or, weren't as of Friday.

And the IDF collected cameras, video equipment, phones and everything else from nearly 800 people.

And Maguire was not in that flotilla. She was on the Rachel Corrie.

[EFerrari]

9. I haven't been following this piece of things but here's a story

about passport handling:

Jordan receives 17 passports of flotilla activists from Israel

Amman - The Jordanian embassy on Tuesday received the passports of 17 activists seized by Israeli naval forces during their bloody raid of the Gaza-bound convoy of ships last week, according to Minister of State for Media Affairs Nabil Sharif.

He said that the documents belonged to seven Jordanians and other activists from Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Morocco, Algeria, Pakistan and Indonesia.

Since its boarding of the Freedom Flotilla ships last Tuesday, Israel deported to Jordan a total of 132 activists, including 24 Jordanians.

However, Sharif said that the Jordanian embassy in Tel Aviv would continue efforts to decide the fate of two more Jordanian passports which were still missing.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/news/327875,receives-17-passportsflotilla-activistsisrael.html