Greek coast guard intercepts French Gaza-bound boat
The Greek coast guard on Thursday intercepted a French boat carrying pro-Palestinian activists on the southern island of Crete, the third aid ship in the last week to be prevented from sailing to Gaza, currently being blockaded by Israel.
Coast guard officials located the Dignite Al-Kanama as it was refuelling in a tiny uncontrolled port on Crete and was towed to the island’s larger port of Sitia for checks, activist Manolis Pleonis told the German Press Agency dpa.
The boat, with about a dozen activists on board, had sailed from Corsica in late June.