Blockade-busting boats leave Gaza Strip for Cyprus

Haaretz Thursday 28th August, 2008

After five days on the Gaza Strip's coastline, two boats carrying humanitarian aid in efforts to break an Israeli-imposed economic blockade on the Strip set sail for Cyprus on Thursday, carrying seven...

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