Greece has increased its state of readiness as the Israeli passenger vessel approaches its shores. The Crown Iris, carrying Israeli tourists on an 11-day Mediterranean cruise, is scheduled to dock at several Greek ports in the coming days.<\/p>\n
The alert level was raised after incidents in July and August, when demonstrators gathered at Greek ports to block Israeli passengers from disembarking. In some cases, the protests turned violent. Earlier this week, the MS Crown Iris docked at the port of Kalamata, while in July it was forced to divert its route to Cyprus due to large anti-Israel protests in Greece.<\/p>\n
Some protest organizers have already announced plans to confront the ship again when it arrives in Patras and Katakolo.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe cannot remain silent in light of Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza since the ceasefire took effect on October 10,\u201d said Christina Lada, a teacher who participated in the Kalamata protest, speaking to The Guardian.<\/p>\n
\u201cDespite the ceasefire, Israel continues its attacks on Gaza. Innocent and unarmed civilians are being killed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yannis Sipankis, a prominent activist who organized several anti-Israel demonstrations in Greece in recent months, told The Guardian he also plans to travel to the two ports to prevent Israeli tourists from disembarking.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose Israelis who support their government\u2019s actions are not welcome here,\u201d Sipankis said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greece has increased its state of readiness as the Israeli passenger vessel approaches its shores. The Crown Iris,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":342281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[63832,24918,99,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-342280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-cruise-ship","9":"tag-greece","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115461127594036491","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}