A Gulf country holds an Israeli ship heading for Qatar
Qatar-Israel, Politics, 7/19/2001

The Jordanian weekly al-Bilad has published excerpts from press reports on Wednesday saying that a certain Gulf states,not mentioned by name, has recently held, for the second time during several weeks a ship loaded by Israeli commodities for Qatar without legal passage licensing and is hiding behind forged documents.

These reports said that the Qatari foreign minister Hamad Bin Jasem al-Thani is making the contacts with the " capital of the said Gulf state " to end the seizing of the ship which carried Computers spare parts or to return it back from where it had come, calmly and noiselessly.

Recently, the Gulf press said that a ship rising a Turkish flag was returned back to the Swiss Canal after it was found out it is carrying Israeli commodities to Qatar.

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