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In the midst of intense tensions between Israel and the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, an international auxiliary flotilla from Gaza approached the sealed Palestinian territory. According to the co-president of the Jewish Union for Peace, Pierre Stambul, the first vessel of the flotilla could reach the waters off the Gaza Strip today
It concerns the ship "Awda which in Arabic means "return". that means. According to Stambul, some 40 activists from 15 countries aboard the three ships of the Gaza flotilla himself were not on board. The Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, as in previous years, should stop the ships involved and escort them to an Israeli port.
Israel has blocked the Gaza Strip under Hamas control for more than a decade. Since the end of March, violent clashes between Palestinians and the Israeli army have occurred at the border of the Gaza Strip. At least 157 Palestinians have been killed since.
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