Lebanese detainees captured in flotilla raid arrive in Lebanon
June 3rd, 2010 - 4:42 am ICT by IANSBeirut, June 3 (DPA) Two journalists who were among the five Lebanese detainees captured during the Israeli raid on a flotilla carrying aid bound for the Gaza Strip, were released late Wednesday at the Israeli-Lebanese border.
The two journalists from the Doha-based television television network Al-Jazeera, Abbas Nasser and Andre abi Khalil, arrived at the Naqoura border crossing escorted by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
Nasser, the Beirut correspondent of Al-Jazeera, told Lebanese media at the scene that he had been “mistreated by the Israeli soldiers and was beaten”.
The two journalists appeared calm and in good condition.
According to a Lebanese source, the other three detainees will be released later tonight or Thursday morning.
Israel’s navy Monday stormed the flotilla, made up of six boats carrying some 700 pro-Palestinian activists and 10,000 tonnes of humanitarian aid bound for the Gaza Strip. At least nine people died as a result of the raid.
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