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Gaza blockade protesters set sail back to Cyprus
0 Comments | AFP, August, 2008
GAZA CITY (AFP) — Pro-Palestinian activists who sailed to the Gaza Strip in symbolic defiance of an Israeli blockade headed back to Cyprus on Thursday with a few residents of the besieged territory on board their two boats.
The wooden fishing boats "Free Gaza" and "SS Liberty", which arrived on Saturday with 44 activists on board, set sail for the 370-kilometre (230-mile) return voyage on Thursday afternoon.
Nine of the activists remained in Gaza to conduct "human rights monitoring," while another, Bill Dienst of Omak, Washington, planned to try to cross over into Israel through the Erez crossing.
Seven Palestinians, including students who had been prevented by the Israeli embargo from studying abroad, were on board the vessels.
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