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Wed 03 Mar 2011Israel seeks aid of diplomats to prevent flotilla going to Gaza
ISRAEL HAS launched a campaign to prevent an international flotilla setting sail for Gaza next month.
Organisers of “Freedom Flotilla 2”, including representatives from Ireland, met in Madrid last month and announced plans to sail to Gaza in May in an effort to break Israel’s maritime blockade on the coastal strip. The event is planned to take place in the second half of May, a year after a flotilla of six ships was intercepted by Israeli commandos in the Mediterranean, resulting in the death of nine Turkish activists.
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