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# Pro-Palestinian activists to make second attempt to break Gaza blockade
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## Pro-Palestinian activists said they would make a second attempt to break
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the blockade on Gaza despite the loss of life on Monday.
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![Supplies to be loaded onto the MV Rachel Corrie][1]
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Supplies are loaded onto the MV Rachel Corrie in Dundalk Harbour in May Photo:
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PA
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By Richard Spencer 10:00PM BST 01 Jun 2010
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The MV Rachel Corrie, belonging to the Free Gaza Movement, was yesterday off
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the coast of Italy on its way from Malta stocked with building supplies,
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cement, medical and educational equipment and wheelchairs.
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Among its passengers are Mairead Corrigan Maguire, the Nobel Peace laureate
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and founder of the Northern Ireland Peace People, Denis Halliday, a retired
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Irish diplomat who was once United Nations assistant secretary-general, and at
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least a dozen other activists.
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Unlike the Mavi Marmara, the scene of the fighting on Monday, it is not being
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operated by the Turkish Islamist group IHH, but directly by the Free Gaza
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Movement which bought it for the purpose in Dundalk, Ireland, in March.
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"We are an initiative to break Israel's blockade of 1.5 million people in
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Gaza," its spokesman, Greta Berlin, said. "Our mission has not changed and
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this is not going to be the last flotilla."
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Israeli defence spokesmen said they were expecting the Rachel Corrie, named
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after a 23-year-old American activist with the pro-Palestinian International
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Solidarity Movement who was crushed to death by a bulldozer during a protest
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in Gaza in 2003, to be off the coast by Wednesday.
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## Related Articles
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* [Gaza aid flotilla attack: Obama speaks to Turkey][2]
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02 Jun 2010
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They pledged to maintain the blockade."We will not let any ships reach Gaza
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and supply what has become a terrorist base threatening the heart of Israel,"
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the deputy defence minister, Matan Vilnai, said.
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The Rachel Corrie was one of two ships that were due to take part in the
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initial six-boat flotilla but became separated, because it was slower
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according to one activist. Another ship is currently being repaired in Cyprus
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after developing engine trouble.
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Ms Berlin said that the group was intending to hold up the ship's progress,
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and was not intending to challenge the blockade until next Monday or Tuesday -
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ensuring that the publicity engendered by the flotilla will last into a second
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week.
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Ms Maguire, speaking from the boat, insisted its purpose was purely
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humanitarian and that there were no arms on board. "Their port has been closed
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for over 40 years," she told Irish radio. "1.5 million people, it's like the
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population of Northern Ireland, totally cut off from the world by this
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inhumane illegal siege."
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