Palestinian Man Deported to Gaza, his Wife Deported to Turkey by Israeli Occupation Apartheid Government

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Resident Sent To Gaza, Turkish Wife Deported

Thursday June 03, 2010 12:13 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies

The Israeli occupation government sent a Gaza Strip resident back to the coastal region while his Turkish wife was deported back to Istanbul. The resident and his wife were among the activists detained after the army carried out its deadly attack against the Freedom Flotilla.

At a press conference held directly after he was sent back to Gaza, resident Ahmad Dahshan said that he and his Turkish wife were kidnapped along with the rest of the activists and was interrogated before he was deported to Gaza.

He was told that his wife will also be sent to Gaza, but shortly after entering the Gaza Strip he was informed that his wife was deported to Turkey.

“They told me that am being sent back to Gaza, I asked them about my wife and they said she was already sent to Gaza,” he stated, “but when I arrived at the crossing, I did not find her, and shortly afterwords I received a phone call from Turkey, and was told my wife was deported.”

Dahshan and his wife went to Turkey after conducting pilgrimage in Mecca, they tried to return to the Gaza Strip but were not allowed, and then decided to join the Freedom Flotilla hoping to return to Gaza.

He voiced an appeal to human rights groups to intervene and ensure his wife’s safe return to Gaza.

Israel attacked the Freedom Flotilla on Monday at dawn, killed and wounded dozens of nonviolent, human rights activists heading to Gaza to deliver humanitarian supplies.

Gazan flotilla passenger finds wife deported to Turkey

Published today (updated) 03/06/2010 12:23

Gaza – Ma'an –

A Gaza man and his Turkish wife aboard the Freedom Flotilla were separated on Wednesday, when the man was deported to Gaza and his wife to her native Turkey.

The man, Ahmad Ad-Dahshan, announced in a news conference that the two had joined the flotilla after leaving Gaza for an Umrah pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, where his wife had fallen ill. The two were delayed and when they attempted to re-enter Gaza they found the Rafah crossing shut.

Back in Turkey, the two signed on to the flotilla mission in an attempt to get home, but were detained from their ship when Israeli commandos boarded it in international waters and took control of the vessel, killing at least ten people in the process. The boats were dragged to the Israeli Port of Ashdod, where the husband and wife were detained and separated.

Ad-Dahshan said he was investigated separately from his wife, and on the conclusion of a day of questioning and harsh treatment, he was told he would be deported to Gaza. When the man asked about his wife, he said he was told that she was already deported and would be waiting for him there. "You’ll find her in Gaza,” Ad-Dahshan recalled a guard saying.

"But I was surprised that when I arrived to the crossing and she wasn’t there. After a while, I received a phone call from Turkey and I knew they deported her."

Ad-Dahshan appealed to rights organizations to help his wife return to Gaza so she could be with her family there.

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