Foreign activists from the “Free Gaza” movement have returned to Cyprus after sailing to Gaza last week with humanitarian aid in defiance of the Israeli blockade. The activists said they plan to return to Gaza in a month. They were the first foreigners to go to Gaza by sea since Israel tightened travel restrictions more than a year ago. Seven Palestinians sailed back to Cyprus with the activists, including sixteen-year-old Sa’ad Mesleh, who lost a leg in an Israeli army attack three years ago.

Sa’ad Mesleh: “Gaza is full of injured people and needing desperate help, and I hope the international community will take a stand and take more steps like this and bring more injured people out of the Gaza Strip, because there is no treatment in the Gaza Strip.”