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Source: https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/gaza-flotilla-pushes-off-to-protest-against-israel-blockade-1.735011

Gaza Flotilla Pushes Off to Protest against Israel Blockade

(Agence France Press/National - UAE) Palestinians launched boats from Gaza on Tuesday in a protest against Israel's blockade, a move likely to further raise tensions after mortar fire from the enclave earlier in the day. One main boat carrying about 20 people, accompanied by a group of smaller ones, departed from the fishermen's port in Gaza City. There were conflicting statements about whether the boats would seek to break Israel's blockade, which currently allows them to travel nine nautical miles (16 kilometres) off the coast.

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