On 8 July 2011, hundreds of internationals attempted to fly to Israeli’s Ben Gurion airport, carrying invitations to visit a refugee camp in the West Bank City of Bethlehem in protest of Israeli denial of entry policy, which prevents Palestinians living abroad and internationals from entering the Occupied Territories.  CPTer John Lynes was one of the dozens of people who flew from the United Kingdom.  Israel submitted names of  participants to various airlines, and some of these airlines chose not to allow the nonviolent activists to board planes in France and Germany.  All twelve of the people who flew from the UK were arrested at Ben Gurion, and, the most recent information indicates, the Israeli authorities took them to a detention center near Tel Aviv.