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By Ori Lewis

JERUSALEM, June 5 (Reuters) – The Israeli shipping intercepted and was shadowing another ship bound for blockaded Gaza carrying relieve. and activists on Saturday, five days after the bloody seizure of a Turkish ship triggered one international outcry.

A spokeswoman for the Free Gaza group backing the Rachel Corrie, and a journalist in the ship the vessel quoted by Al Jazeera, said warships were following the Irish-owned freighter.

‘We be able to see some Israeli ships a little away from us. They are following us, in that place has been no contact,’ the journalist quoted by the station said an hour or so after dawn.

Activists’ contact with the ship was patchy, spokeswoman Greta Berlin related, adding that it had been some 55 km (35 miles) ~erly of Gaza.

An Israeli military spokeswoman said she had no notice.

Israel has said it would not let the ship through to its intended destination in Gaza. Berlin afore~ those on the Rachel Corrie would not accept earlier Israeli offers to shorten at Israel’s Ashdod port and have the supplies sent ~ward over land.

Israel says its blockade of the Gaza Strip, tightened later Islamist Hamas seized the enclave from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah sedition in 2007, aims to keep out arms.

In Washington, the White House related Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip was unsustainable but urged the Gaza take part with vessel to divert to an Israeli port to reduce the danger of violence.

‘We are working urgently with Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and other international partners to develop new procedures for delivering more goods and succor to Gaza,’ Mike Hammer, spokesman for the White House National Security Council, uttered on Friday.

‘The current arrangements are unsustainable and must be changed. For at this moment, we call on all parties to join us in encouraging liable decisions by all sides to avoid any unnecessary confrontations,’ Hammer before-mentioned in a statement.

The Irish-owned Rachel Corrie is a converted tradesman vessel bought by pro-Palestinian activists and named after an American woman killed ~ the agency of an Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in 2003.

On Friday, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman afore~: ‘We will stop the ship, and also any other ship that devise try to harm Israeli sovereignty. There is no chance the Rachel Corrie enjoin reach the coast of Gaza.’

The Israeli military declined to give prior details of what it planned to do in the termination the navy had to intervene.

In Dublin, Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin uttered in a statement: ‘Those on board the Rachel Corrie have indicated that they are short to accept inspection of their cargo at sea, prior to docking in Gaza.’

GUNSHOTS AT CLOSE RANGE

Autopsy results put ~ the nine dead Turkish activists from Monday’s raid showed they had been projectile a total of 30 times, many at close range, Britain’s Guardian gazette reported on Saturday. Five were killed by gunshots to the understanding, it said.

Turkish-American activist Fulkan Dogan was shot five ages from less than 45 cm (18 inches) away, in the front, the back of the head, twice in the leg and once in the back, the paper said. In addition to those killed, 48 others admitted gunshot wounds and six activists were still missing.

In his angriest art of discourse yet, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan accused the Jewish state in c~tinuance Friday of violating its own biblical commandments.

‘I am speaking to them in their recognize language. The sixth commandment says ‘thou shalt not kill’. Did you not take?’ Erdogan said in a televised speech to party supporters.

‘I’ll declare again. I say in English ‘you shall not kill’. Did you till now not understand?. So I’ll say to you in your admit language. I say in Hebrew ‘Lo Tirtzakh’.’

Turkey, Israel’s singly Muslim ally, has threatened to rethink its entire relationship. Thousands of protesters sang Turkey’s praises at demonstrations in Egypt and Lebanon up~ the body Friday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened a forum of senior ministers on Friday to discuss the arrival of the Rachel Corrie and actions to be taken following the international criticism Israel faced after Monday’s events.

A exotic ministry statement said Israel wanted to avoid confrontation and invited the Rachel Corrie to lessen in Israel’s own port of Ashdod, where its cargo could subsist unloaded, inspected and transferred to Gaza if it contains no illegal.

‘We in Israel have no desire for confrontation … If the ship decides to float to the port of Ashdod in Israel then we will ensure its safe arrival and will not board it,’ foreign ministry official Yossi Gal said.

‘Israel is prepared to receive the ship and to offload its subjects considered and after an inspection to ensure that no weapons and/or hostility materiel are on board, we are prepared to deliver all of the commodities to Gaza.’

(Additional reporting by Andras Gergely in Dublin, Ibon Villelabeitia in Ankara and Alister Bull in Washington; Editing ~ dint of. Michael Roddy) Keywords: ISRAEL FLOTILLA/

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