Israeli police detained dozens of pro-Palestinian activists who had attempted a mass "flytilla" protest at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport yesterday (Sunday).Hundreds of Israeli police officers were waiting to greet the Palestinian demonstrators. Organisers of the protest against the expansion of Israeli settlements into Palestinian territory claimed that more than 60 per cent of those who attempted to participate in the demonstration had been forbidden from flying by airlines which had received a list of 1,200 blacklisted names. There were angry scenes at Belgian and French airports on Saturday when hundreds of activists were barred from boarding their flights to Tel Aviv. Of those protesters who succeeded in flying into Israel, 43 were detained on arrival. Nine Israelis sympathetic with the protest were arrested at Ben Gurion airport. 

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