Desk Report: When Israeli forces attacked the Global Relief Flotilla, an international flotilla carrying food and medicine to Gaza, two web developers in Glasgow, Scotland, scrambled to track the flotilla’s movements on Wednesday night. Millions of people around the world were watching the fate of the boats online. Blurry footage from cameras inside the boats was being shown live on the flotilla’s website. The developers were updating the ships’ positions and posting short videos of each ship being seized. They said the number of clicks on the posts was unprecedented.…
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