{"id":7397,"date":"2010-09-20T13:45:43","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T11:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=7397"},"modified":"2010-09-20T13:45:43","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T11:45:43","slug":"largest-flotilla-yet-en-route-to-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2010\/09\/largest-flotilla-yet-en-route-to-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Largest Flotilla Yet’ En-Route to Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ships from Britain, Morocco, Qatar to rendezvous in Syria, sail toward el-Arish Port in northern Sinai Peninsula; activists plan to enter Gaza through Rafah Crossing, deliver humanitarian aid<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Four months after being injured on board the Mavi Marmara ship, one of the participants of late May’s Gaza-bound flotilla<\/a> on Saturday joined what organizers are calling “the largest flotilla yet.”<\/p>\n

Kevin Ovenden set sail from Britain Saturday morning along with 30 other activists on a voyage they dubbed “Viva Palestina.” Their goal is to reach the Gaza Strip through Rafah Crossing \u2013 after docking in Egypt’s el-Arish Port at the northern Sinai Peninsula.<\/p>\n

At the same time, activists from Qatar and Morocco are making last arrangements before heading for Syria<\/a> and joining the locals en route to the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n

“Our mission last time was to take aid in and to highlight the siege,” Ovenden told CNN. “That’s our mission this time.”<\/p>\n

Ovenden also denied claims that activists aboard the Mavi Marmara carried weapons that were used against the soldiers during the raid.<\/p>\n

“I witnessed the man one meter in front of me being shot in the leg, a man 50 centimeters to the\u00a0 right of me being shot through the abdomen,” Ovenden said of the experience.<\/p>\n

“Neither of them had anything in their hands. There were no Israeli commandos within the immediate proximity. They were shot from above, so it was simply unfeasible — in that incident I saw \u2013 for anyone to claim they were in fearing for their lives when they rang out those shots,” he added.<\/p>\n

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