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Sunday, July 27, 2025
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Sunday, July 27, 2025
Gaza flotilla seized by military arrives in Ashdod
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This photograph shows a view of the Freedom Flotilla ship Handala as it departs for Gaza, where it aimed to break the maritime blockade, at a port in Syracuse, Sicily, southern Italy, on July 13, 2025. (Giovanni Isolino/AFP)
Israeli forces brought the activist boat Handala into the port of Ashdod on Sunday, after seizing the vessel in international waters and detaining the crew, an AFP journalist sees.
Campaigners from the Freedom Flotilla Coalition had attempted to breach an Israeli naval blockade of the Palestinian territory of Gaza, but were intercepted late Saturday.
The legal rights center Adalah tells AFP its lawyers were in Ashdod and had asked to speak to the detained crew.
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