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It sailed from Greece six weeks after Israeli commandos intercepted an aid flotilla trying to break the Gaza blockade.

Regional tensions have been running high since Israeli commandos intercepted an aid flotilla trying to break the blockade six weeks ago.

Indeed, Israel says it had repeatedly offered to transfer the flotilla's cargo once it docked in the Israeli port of Ashdod.

Well, the accompanying flotilla of dorados (up to 50 now) can be seen more easily, their astonishing blueness picked up by torchlight.

And Ankara, which had publicly backed the flotilla, withdrew its ambassador to Israel.

Israel and the U. S. have urged the flotilla not to violate the Gaza blockade, warning that the mission is dangerous and provocative.

With military helicopters hovering above and a flotilla of escort ships alongside, the USS San Francisco returned to Guam on Monday.

"It's awesome to be back. " Sunderland, of Thousand Oaks, California, said after he was welcomed home by a flotilla of well-wishers.

But she picked up on hearing the sound of laughter and merriment and saw Happiness coming in a joyful flotilla of small boats.

N. report into last year's killing of nine Turks during an Israeli operation to stop a flotilla ships trying to break its blockade.

Photo 10 : Gentoo and chinstrap penguins look out on a flotilla of small icebergs in Cooper Bay.

The Cyprus-based Free Gaza Movement and a Turkish aid group known by the letters IHH organized the flotilla.

The Chinese ships would be joining an international flotilla, which includes vessels from the United States, Russia, Denmark and Italy.

Captain Watson this morning announced the existence of a secret third ship in the Sea Shepherd flotilla.

For a couple of days her explosive remarks competed for air-time with the deadly Israeli raid on the Gaza-bound flotilla.

The flotilla, which will carry pro-Palestinian activists from more than a dozen countries, is planning to set sail this week.

The attack on the aid flotilla came as American-mediated indirect talks between the Israelis and Palestinians are getting underway.

In May a Turkish-led civilian flotilla led by the Mavi Marmara attempted to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza.

General Iland said that the use of force was the only way to stop the flotilla.

She is accompanied by a small flotilla of watercraft manned by members of her team who pass her food, water, medicine and swimsuits.

The flotilla was en route to Gaza in an attempt to bring international attention to Israel's blockade of the Palestinian territory.

More than a month after Israel's deadly flotilla raid, another aid ship is sailing toward the blockaded Palestinian-ruled Gaza Strip.

The concert took place the same month as the Gaza flotilla raid, in which nine Turkish activists were killed.

Market squalls have tossed some of the bigger vessels in the euro-zone flotilla, including Italy and Spain.

COMPARED with the flotilla of oil and gas platforms in the North Sea, the waters west of the Shetland Islands are virgin territory.

But the prospects for a Palestinian rapprochement still look far more remote than the launch of another flotilla.

The report concluded that Israel used excessive force against the flotilla, though its blockade of Gaza was legal.

Turkey, which unofficially sponsored the flotilla, has described the Israeli raid as "state terrorism. "

Participants in the flotilla, the committee wrote, "acted recklessly in attempting to breach the naval blockade" .

He also called on Ankara to cool its rhetoric about an Israeli raid that killed nine Turks on a flotilla bearing aid for Gaza.

In the Battle of Mobile Bay (August 1864) Adm. David Farragut defeated a major Confederate flotilla and secured Union control of the area.

Then came the Mavi Marmara flotilla incident: Israelis completely bungled the operation.

The summit also issued a joint declaration regarding Israel's operation on Monday against an aid flotilla to Gaza .

Russia also sent a small naval flotilla to the Caribbean for joint exercises with Venezuela and Cuba.

At one corner of the inn, beside a pool in which a flotilla of ducks was navigating, a badly paved path plunged into the bushes.

"We regret the loss of lives during the Israeli military operation against the flotilla sailing to Gaza, " Mr. Van Rompuy added.

Epstein had planned to be aboard the flotilla and Peck was.

An international aid flotilla is continuing with plans to sail to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip despite a series of setbacks.

On May 31, a flotilla of Turkish ships approached the coast of the Gaza strip attempting to deliver aid supplies.

Israel has begun moving cargo from the aid flotilla to the Gaza Strip after inspecting it.

Israeli security forces say it will stop the flotilla and return activists back to their own countries.

It is still not clear when the flotilla, with 10 boats and hundreds of people escorting two cargo vessels, will set sail for Gaza.

A flotilla of low craft chuff from left to right, man and wife hunched at the stern.

Much as after the flotilla raid, the Israeli media condemned the clumsy mishandling of the deportations.

His deputy, Mehdi Herati, sailed with a fiercely Islamist Turkish group in last year's flotilla to break the siege on Gaza.

a flotilla of glossy limousines swept past.

Coast Guard Flotilla 10 tied up along with British landing craft preparing to sail the English Channel and invade Nazi-occupied France.

The country is America's fourth largest investor. It is participating in many of the festivities, including a big flotilla last month.

In 2003-2005, he was chief of staff and first deputy CO of the Caspian Flotilla.

A central table, 82. 4 metres long, supports a flotilla of model ships.

In 2002-2003, he was deputy CO of the Caspian Flotilla.

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Flotilla: a fleet of small craft