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'The Free Gaza Movement's "Spirit of Humanity" vessel departed Cyprus at 7:30am on Monday... Twenty-one human rights and solidarity workers representing 11 different countries were aboard. The passengers include Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire and former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney.
The ship was also carrying three tons of medical aid, children's toys, and rehabilitation and reconstruction kits for twenty family homes...
...Over 2,400 homes were destroyed in Gaza during the Israeli assault in December-January, 490 of them by F-16 airstrikes, as well as 30 mosques, 29 educational institutions, 29 medical centers, 10 charitable organizations, and five cement factories, the movement said.
Although over 4 billion dollars in aid was promised to Gaza in the aftermath of the Israeli onslaught, little humanitarian aid and virtually no reconstruction supplies have been allowed in. Full story
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