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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The Israeli navy stopped the Palestinian flotilla that had set out from the Gaza port to break the Israeli blockade with 17 Palestinians aboard. The boat was towed on May 29 to Ashdod naval base in the south of Israel after it had crossed 14 nautical miles from the Gaza Strip toward Limassol port in Cyprus.
Dozens of small Palestinian boats carrying local and international media staff and Palestinian activists accompanied the flotilla transporting students and sick and wounded people across several nautical miles in the waters off the Gaza Strip before leaving it to continue the journey on its own to the Cypriot port.
