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August 29, 2008

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Seafaring Activists Break Gaza Blockade

Women in Palestine © Advocacy Project / Iain Guest

08/29/2008

Human rights activists from over a dozen countries sailed from Cyprus to the Gaza Strip last weekend, breaking the Israeli blockade for the first time in 41 years, reports an international alliance of grassroots development groups.

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