A note from dear friend Sana Kassem

Today morning the 6 crew members of the Greek cargo ship arrived to Athens..they were deported..They have seen the Israeli soldiers beating up brutally four of our comrades in Ashdod (Jelle you remember Vangelis, he was beaten the most but also Yannis the film producer that you talked to him about our videos), when one of them refused to leave the ship they used electric guns and pulled him, another one was shot in the leg)..Now we received a msg from a friend she is still detained in Ashdod and thinks the other Greeks are taken to Jails..Knowing them they will refuse to sign any paper for their release..
Yesterday we had a protest at the Isreali embassy (Jelle I told you 2000) newspapers are talking about 10,000, 5 minutes after the beginning of the protest the police rained us with tear gases, the brutality of the Greek police was unprecedented (ta gourounia = the pigs). A big demonstration is planned for thursday at the ministry of foreign affairs: we want our people back..

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