A court in Jerusalem, Israel rejected on Friday an appeal by a Nobel Peace Prize winner from Ireland against being deported after entering the country while still banned from Israel for efforts to reach the area of Gaza in June, within the blockade-busting vessel.

The laureate, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, detained within a lockup in an airport last week for the violation of a ban imposed on her in June, as she was in a ship bound for Gaza that was about try to breach the now famous blockade. At that time, Maguire had been told she could never return for a decade except she had received a special approval.

After the district court had rejected Maguire’s appeal, she was given about two days that would allow an appeal in the Supreme Court to take place.

The 66-year-old Nobel Laureate is a very outspoken and champion of the statehood of Palestinians, who won 1976’s Nobel Peace Prize for her continued work with Protestants and Catholics within Northern Ireland.
Other individuals who are pro-Palestinians banned from entering Israel, include Noam Chomsky, a Jewish-American Linguist in May, as much as the Israel government claimed that it was a wrong action on its part.

Maguire had tried to go to Gaza in the Rachel Corrie vessel that was trying to break the Gaza’s naval blockade by Israel that had been there for three years. After the ship had been captured, Maguire and other activists aboard were deported. Another ship bound for Gaza was attacked by an Israel raid, sparking a lot of international condemnation of the Israel government.

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