Many "Fly-tilla" activists never arrived

The pro-Palestinian "flytilla" was much smaller than planned, as many activists were banned from boarding flights to Israel on Saturday. The largest group of activists was meant to arrive from France. They were instructed to arrive at the Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris at 5 am on Sunday but were stopped by security forces. More than 60 percent of the 1,500 pro-Palestinian activists due to arrive in Israel to take part in a fly-in protest have received notifications from airlines that their flights were canceled. By the early afternoon, police had detained nine people for questioning, with three French nationals granted permission to enter Israel and another six people slated for deportation. Of that number, four were Frenchwomen who had arrived on a flight from Switzerland, one was a Portuguese activist who flew in from Amman with Royal Jordanian Airlines, and one was a Canadian who had travelled from America on United Airlines.