Gazans wait for flotilla with balloons, music

5 October 2016, 2:10 pm

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In Gaza, locals are readying to welcome the flotilla boat in the afternoon with music at the enclave’s port if it manages to get through.

Palestinians show their solidarity with a Gaza-bound flotilla of international activists attempting to break the Israeli blockade on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, on October 5, 2016 at the port in Gaza City. (AFP / MOHAMMED ABED)

Pictures show several people with balloons, and at least one Norwegian flag, at the port in Gaza City.

The Zaytouna-Oliva set sail from Barcelona in September.

Dubbed “Women’s Boat to Gaza,” it is part of the wider Freedom Flotilla Coalition that consists of pro-Palestinian boats that regularly seek to go to Gaza, ruled by the Hamas terror group, to try to break the blockade.

Israel maintains a blockade to keep material it believes could be used for military purposes from entering the impoverished enclave of 1.9 million people.

— with AFP