Jerusalem man asks US to seize Mavi Marmara and other blockade running vessels

Taking advantage of an obscure statute, an American citizen residing in Jerusalem has brought an action in the United States asking that the US seize the Mavi Marmara and 12 other ships that attempted to run Israel's legal blockade of Gaza. Dr. Alan J. Bauer, an American citizen living in Jerusalem, filed the suit last June in the US federal court in New York with the help of Shurat HaDin (The