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In what may be another blow to Israel's international status, Dermott Ahern said that since Israel used forged Irish passports to carry out the hit on Hamas official Mohammed al-Mabhouh in Dubai, Israel should not be allowed access to this data.
Under a plan put forward at the beginning of the year, the European organizations for protecting individuals' privacy agreed that Israeli companies and European companies should be able to exchange information about customers.
In addition, multinational corporations would be able to entrust Israeli companies to secure their databases, and the data could be stored on servers in Israel. Plus, information about employees could be passed freely between European and Israeli branches of the same company.
In agreeing to grant this access, the EU authorities decided that Israel had proper information protection systems in place.
However, the plan still needs to be ratified by the government of each individual EU member country before it can take force.
Last month Israel conducted a deadly operation against a Gaza-bound aid flotilla and killed massacre nine Turkish civilians on board the Mavi Marmara ship, including a 19-year-old with an American citizenship.
When they stormed the ship, Israeli navy forces had lists and pictures of individuals on the ship, many of whom were shot at close range, raw footage of the attack shows.
Israel came under lots of criticism when it refused an international decision to form an international investigation committee into the incident and formed its own committee to investigate a crime it committed.
ISRAEL’S STATUS WORST SINCE 1970s
Israel's current standing in the United Nations is the worst it has been in nearly forty years, said Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, Gabriela Shalev, in an interview with Israel’s Army Radio on Sunday.
"Our situation in recent months can be compared to the 1970s, when Zionism was being called racism," said Shalev.
The ambassador stated that she had sent a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and spoken to him personally about the Gaza-bound ship, telling him it was "a provocation, especially in light of the easing of the Gaza blockade."
Shalev said that Ban is still planning on forming an international panel, which would include Turks and Israelis, to investigate the May 31 raid of the Mavi Marmara.
Shalev, who announced her resignation last month, said that she will return to Israel at the end of summer when her time as ambassador is scheduled to end officially on September 1. She added that she still has no idea who will replace her as UN ambassador.
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