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<strong>Press Release #<a href="http://wp.me/p16sn9-ePX" target="_blank">FREEDOMWAVES</a> | Topic <a href="http://wp.me/p16sn9-ePJ" target="_blank">FreedomWaves</a> | Category <a href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/iremember-the-mavi-marmara-massacre-in-pictures/" target="_blank">Flotilla</a> | <a href="http://wp.me/p16sn9-eSC" target="_blank">Pictures</a><a href="https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/iremember-the-mavi-marmara-massacre-in-pictures/" target="_blank"></a></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Maan News Agency | Nov 11, 2011</strong></p>
<p>BETHLEHEM (Ma&#8217;an) &#8212; Israeli authorities deported the last detainees seized from two Gaza-bound ships a week ago, activists said on Friday.</p>
<p>Nine of the activists left for their countries Friday morning, spokeswoman for the activists Huwaida Arraf said, noting that among them was Irish Member of the European Parliament Paul Murphy.</p>
<p>On Thursday, five Irish activists and British journalist Hasan Ghani were also deported, clearing Israeli jails of the 27 passengers who attempted to break Israel&#8217;s blockade on the Gaza Strip last Friday.</p>
<p>The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists expressed concern over Ghani&#8217;s continued detention, after three other journalists aboard the ships were freed earlier in the week.</p>
<p>&#8220;Journalists have a legitimate function. Israel must return the journalists&#8217; equipment and footage and allow them to carry out their job,&#8221; Mohamed Abdel Dayem, CPJ Middle East and North Africa program coordinator, said in a press statement.</p>
<p>Israeli commandos boarded the Irish-flagged Saoirse (Freedom) and the Canadian ship Tahrir (Liberation) in international waters off the Gaza Strip before the navy escorted them to the port of Ashdod.</p>
<p>Israel tightened a maritime and land blockade on the coastal strip of 1.6 million people after Hamas took power in 2007.</p>
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