Gaza blockade
Jul 14 2010, Muzikansky

A Libyan charity’s aid ship, flanked by Israeli missile boats, was sailing in the direction of an Egyptian port on Wednesday, apparently deciding not to defy Israel’s naval blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.

Egypt’s state news agency MENA...

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