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[zan]

NICOSIA, Cyprus: Protesters who defied Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip to bring aid to Palestinians last month are making a return voyage, a trip organizer said Tuesday.

Free Gaza organizer Greta Berlin said about 20 protesters will sail Wednesday from Cyprus aboard a boat named Hope for the 20-hour trip to the Palestinian territory.

Berlin said Irish Nobel peace prize winner Mairead McGuire, Palestinian Legislative Council member Mustafa Barghouti and an Italian opera tenor would be among the passengers.

She said protesters would deliver a consignment of medicine and ferry Palestinians back to the east Mediterranean island on the return trip.

Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said Israel had not decided whether or not to allow the boat into Gaza. Palmor said he didn't know when a decision would be made, but that it was unlikely any decision would be announced in advance.


Protesters sailed to Gaza last month to protest Israel's yearlong blockade of Gaza imposed after the Islamic militant group Hamas overran the territory. They hailed the trip as effectively ending the blockade.

Israeli officials had said the decision to allow the boats to reach Gaza and then to sail back to Cyprus was an attempt to deny the protesters a propaganda victory.


Can they stop off in the TRNC on the way...

[Sotos]

They support those occupied not the invadors.

[wallace]

To do what??? Dump a load with illegal immigrants so they can cross the bufferzone into the south? Allready plenty coming in via other ways....we do not need more.

[zan]

They support those occupied not the invadors.

Thats what I said...The TRNC..Blockaded since 1974 by Greeks.....The invaders

[paliometoxo]

why do people want to help this pedophile so much escape the law????????????????????/

if it was a regular guy no one would care infact they would want to kill him.. just because he kicks a football around that makes it ok?!?!?!?

[paliometoxo]

They support those occupied not the invadors.

Thats what I said...The TRNC..Blockaded since 1974 by Greeks.....The invaders

lol your funny.. yes GREEKS split the island in two and wanted the world to recognise TRNC YES GREEKS it was greek 40 thousand troops hat landed in cyprus that summer,,, what was i thinking all this time!

the turks put themselvs in this posiiton so turks have no one to blame but urselvs refusing to send home them troops and remove the green line.

[zan]

They support those occupied not the invadors.

Thats what I said...The TRNC..Blockaded since 1974 by Greeks.....The invaders

lol your funny.. yes GREEKS split the island in two and wanted the world to recognise TRNC YES GREEKS it was greek 40 thousand troops hat landed in cyprus that summer,,, what was i thinking all this time!

the turks put themselvs in this posiiton so turks have no one to blame but urselvs refusing to send home them troops and remove the green line.

I think that would be surrendering to a regime that took my rights away in 1964 but then you are entitled to your oppinion nomatter how ridiculous

[paliometoxo]

no i think you mean 1974 when the turkish troops landed and left you in the north with nothing

[zan]

no i think you mean 1974 when the turkish troops landed and left you in the north with nothing

You call 37% nothing.....