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Saturday, August 28, 2010

Aid Boats Reach Gaza Despite Blockade


Two vessels carrying 46 international human rights activists have reached the Gaza Strip, despite Israel's strict 14-month siege of the Palestinian territory.

The end of the mission to symbolically break the siege came after Israel backed down from an earlier warning to the 'Free Gaza' protest group not to breach the blockade.

Al Jazeera's Ashraf Amritti in Gaza said: "The arrival of these two boats is a very symbolic gesture for the Palestinian cause, to end the siege, end the occupation.'

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Posted by DotConnector at 09:45

1 comment:

  1. I4P Writers Group28 August 2010 at 14:32

    hi this happened in 2008 it did not happen now. But we do have a flotilla going again in October, the Freedom Flotilla 2

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