United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was "shocked by reports of killing of people in boats carrying supply to Gaza" in international waters, and called for full investigations into the incident.
Robert Serry, UN special coordinator and Filippo Grandi, commissioner-general of the UN Relief and Works Agency said in a joint statement that they "wish to make clear that such tragedies are entirely avoidable if Israel heeds the repeated calls of the international community to end its counterproductive and unacceptable blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip."
The British government on Monday called on Israel to open all crossings to allow unfettered access for aid to Gaza. Foreign Secretary William Hague meanwhile urged Israel to "act with restraint and in line with international obligations".
Meanwhile, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton also called for a timely enquiry into the deadly attacks on Monday, and for an "immediate, sustained and unconditional opening" of the crossing for the flow of humanitarian aid, commercial goods and persons to and from Gaza.
What we're trying to do is open a sea lane between Gaza and the rest of the world," Greta Berlin said in Cyprus. " We're trying to say to the world, 'You have no right to imprison a million and a half Palestinians.'"
Bloody Israeli raid on flotilla sparks crisis
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37423584/ns ... tn_africa/
