Boat arrives in Gaza to protest blockade: Associated Press et al

A boat carrying 27 international activists sailed into Gaza Wednesday...
We're finally getting the world out and the major media is picking up, in fact many major media all over the world...here is a link to all the many media:

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ncl=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/28/europe/EU-Cyprus-Gaza-Blockade.php
two pages worth..
I know I posted already, but here it is in another's words....

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – A boat carrying 27 international activists sailed into Gaza Wednesday, braving stormy seas and defying an Israeli naval blockade to protest against sanctions on the Hamas-controlled territory.

Israel had threatened to block the boat. But navy ships did not interfere, and it sailed unhindered into a Gaza harbor, where it was greeted by Hamas policemen and a small group of Palestinian activists.

The 66-foot yacht Dignity took off from the nearby island of Cyprus Tuesday with a shipment of humanitarian supplies. The passengers included Mairead Corrigan Maguire, who won the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize for her work with Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland.

"The government of Israel cannot cut off Gaza forever. We will come again and again," Maguire said. The activists — who also include Italians, Israelis, Palestinians and Americans — are scheduled to remain in Gaza for four days.

Israel imposed a blockade of Gaza after the Islamic Hamas violently seized control of the territory in June 2007, and later tightened the sanctions because of daily rocket fire from Gaza at Israeli towns. Egypt has also kept its border crossing with the territory closed.

Israel and Hamas are currently observing a truce, and the flow of goods into Gaza has slightly increased. But Palestinians say the easing of the sanctions has done little to alleviate shortages of key goods.

The boat was chartered by the U.S.-based Free Gaza group, which sailed two similar boats into Gaza in August. Israel let those boats through, saying at the time that ignoring them would deny the protesters the publicity they were seeking.

In the West Bank, Israeli troops killed a 67-year-old farmer in a nighttime raid, Palestinians said.

Taher Abahreh, 40, of the West Bank town of Yamoun, said his father, Muhammad Abahreh, was near a small enclosure outside the town guarding his livestock when he was shot. Troops were unsuccessfully trying to treat his father when he arrived about an hour after neighbors called him and reported hearing gunfire, he said.

Palestinian security officials confirmed Abahreh's account.

The Israeli military said the man opened fire at the soldiers before he was killed. The military said troops found a shotgun on his body and ammunition nearby.