POLITICS - A Lebanese ship carrying 60 tonnes of medicine, food, toys and basic humanitarian supplies such as mattresses and blankets for the people of the Gaza Strip was attacked and "kidnapped" by the Israeli navy earlier today.Israel says they are just impounding the ship for trying to go to the Gaza Strip and is trying to "starve out the [Hamas] militants" in the Gaza Strip. Lebanon's prime minister condemned the "blatant attack" and one of the ship's organizers called it a kidnapping. The ship is currently being towed to a dock in Israel and its crew will be handed over to Israeli immigration.
The Lebanese ship was the latest in a string of vessels that tried to break the Israeli blockade. Israel has permitted very few ships to reach Gaza but blocked all others, including a Libyan freighter that was forced to turn around last December.
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