Israeli Arab lawmaker Hanin Zuabi on Monday lashed out at the decision to revoke her parlimentary privileges over her participation in a Gaza-bound flotilla last year, calling it "political persecution."
Zuabi was speaking before the start of a High Court hearing on her petition to have her parliamentary privilieges returned.
The Knesset member was on the Mavi Marmara, the biggest vessel in a six-ship flotilla aiming to break Israel's blockade on the Gaza Strip, when it was boarded by Israeli commandos on May 31, 2010. The commandos were met with resistance from the ship's passengers, resulting clashes that left nine Turkish citizens dead.
Zuabi later testified before a United Nations panel probing the raid; Israeli media reports said that she told the panel the Israel Defense Forces commandos had intended to kill.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/zuabi-revoking-my-parliamentary-privileges-is-political-persecution-1.352331
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