TIMES OF ISRAEL
by Stuart Winer
June 25, 2015

A small flotilla of boats sailed on Thursday for the Gaza Strip with the intention of delivering a cargo of humanitarian supplies and thereby breaking Israel’s naval blockade of the Hamas-controlled coastal enclave. The Israeli-Arab Knesset member Basel Ghattas (Joint List), said before boarding the converted fishing trawler the Marianne of Gothenburg, which is leading the convoy, that it was his duty to take part in the event for the sake of Gaza’s residents. “It is my right and moral obligation to tell the world, ‘Behold, look, in Gaza there is a closure and two million people are on the brink of explosion,’” Ghattas told the Hebrew-language Walla news site. READ MORE