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Israel Prevents Al-Eid Boat from Sailing to Gaza

JAFFA, December 7, 2008 (WAFA)- A Solidarity boat (Al-Eid Boat) scheduled to leave the Jaffa Port on Sunday morning with several Palestinian Knesset members and sail to the Gaza Strip was seized by the Israeli police early Sunday and transferred to the Tel Aviv marina.

 

The police also seized a truck carrying aid and medications and arrested three of the sail's organizers.

 

Left-wing activists and several Arab members of the Knesset were planning to dock in the Strip a day before Eid Al-Adha, in protest of the Israeli blockade of Gaza, and transfer humanitarian aid, including medications, food and toys.

 

United Arab List-Ta’al Chairman Ahmad Tibi, who joined the sail initiative at the last moment, said this was “a coward and anti-Democratic move by people and an establishment fearing the supply of medicines to a Gaza hospital.'

 

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