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  Rachel Corrie activists due home
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News DateMonday, June 7, 2010 12:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionFive Irish citizens who were aboard the aid ship the MV Rachel Corrie are due back in Dublin later today after being deported from Israel.

The five were deported after Israeli forces intercepted the Irish-Malaysian ship on Saturday.

The aid from the Rachel Corrie is still being unloaded at the Israeli port of Ashdod.

The supplies will be taken overland to Gaza in the hope that the Hamas authorities will allow it in. Forty lorries carrying aid from the six ships seized last week are still waiting in Israel because Hamas is refusing to receive the supplies.

A representative from Israel’s co-ordinator of activities in the territories said last night that the cement on board the Rachel Corrie would be allowed into Gaza.

Earlier Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin said he was “relieved” that the Israeli interception of the ship on Saturday had passed off without violence or injury to any members of the crew.

He paid tribute to those onboard, who included several Irish activists, for “demonstrating in no uncertain terms their peaceful intentions”. He said the Government had “relentlessly” communicated this to the Israeli authorities in the days leading up to the interception.
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