[ 08/06/2010 - 12:54 PM ]

MADRID, (PIC)--

Two Spanish activists intend to file a lawsuit against the Israeli occupation government for its deadly attack on Freedom Flotilla convoy, which led to the murder of nine civilian passengers and the injury of many others.

Manuel Tapial and Laura Arau, two of the Spanish participants in the Freedom Flotilla, will file the lawsuit with national courts, which are known for their investigations into violations of human rights committed in other countries.

Tapial told a national radio station that Israel will not be able to escape from its massacre that led to the death of nine people.

In a related incident, pro-Gaza Spanish students on Monday morning managed to thwart a meeting of the Spanish-Israeli committee, which was about to take place at the university of Madrid. 

The meeting was supposed to discuss issues on the use of clean energy and the sale of Spanish arms to Israel, but the angry students, who were chanting slogans against Israel outside the meeting room, forced the Israeli delegation to leave the university under police protection.

As the delegation was leaving the campus, the Spanish students chanted slogans hailing the steadfastness of the Palestinian people in Gaza and the national positions of Hamas Movement.

In the same context of international reactions to Freedom Flotilla massacre, the Swedish parliament held on Sunday a special session to discuss the actions that should be taken against Israel in the aftermath of its deadly attack on the aid convoy.

Swedish lawmakers warned that the passivity of the international community towards the Israeli massacre would send a negative message to Israel that it could persist in its raid on aid convoys heading to Gaza and would encourage other countries to violate international law.

“How can the world’s countries be obliged to respect the international law if Israel’s violation of this law was condoned,” one of the lawmaker said in the session.

They also demanded global sanctions on Israel in order to curb it from committing further violation of international law in the future.

In South Korea, one of the universities backtracked on its intention to grant Israeli president Shimon Peres an honorary doctorate, while the Korean government declared its decision to lower the status accorded to Peres’ upcoming visit to Seoul next Thursday.

Vietnam as well said it postponed the scheduled visit of Peres to the country. Consequently, Israeli official sources stated that the Israeli president is mulling over canceling all his Asian tours.

Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported in this regard that the justice ministry decided to examine the visits that Israeli soldiers or officials intend to make to other countries in order to ascertain that there is no risk of arrest against the backdrop of claims of war crimes.

The justice ministry is getting prepared to face a wave of international indictments against Israeli soldiers and senior officers, the newspaper said.