En artikel som delvis belyser hur Ship to Gaza finansierats. Fokus ligger på den turkiska organisationen IHH.
...The organization is funded entirely on donations, its members said, money that comes from Turkey’s religious merchant class ... The organization has a three-story office building in central Istanbul ... The group bought three boats from a company owned by the Istanbul city government for $1.8 million. The boats carried aid that included building materials — cement, tiles and steel, which Israel bans because it says they could be put to military means — worth about $10 million ... The organization was founded in the early 1990s, first as a charity for the poor in Istanbul and later for Bosnian war victims. It now runs charity and relief work in more than 100 countries, including Haiti and nations in Africa ...Israeli authorities said the group had been raided in 1997 by Turkish authorities, who turned up weapons in one of their offices.
Och så här står det i The Times.
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