Eyewitness video shows two Gaza flotillas intercepted by Israeli Navy

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The organizers of a flotilla of aid vessels bound for Gaza said on Monday (May 18) that Israeli forces had intercepted 10 of their boats and that contact had been lost with a total 23 vessels in the eastern Mediterranean.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:02Organizers of a flotilla of aid vessels bound for Gaza said Israeli forces had intercepted

00:0810 of their boats in the eastern Mediterranean on Monday.

00:12They had also lost contact with 23 of the 54 vessels in the flotilla, naming some two

00:18dozen Turkish nationals among those on the intercepted vessels, some 250 nautical miles

00:24from Gaza.

00:24Video released by eyewitnesses showed the Israeli Navy boarding a vessel called Amanda

00:30and intercepting another boat named Holy Blue.

00:34The Global Sumud Flotilla had set sail for a third time from southern Turkey on Thursday

00:38after earlier attempts to deliver aid to Gaza were intercepted by Israel in international

00:44waters.

00:45It said 426 people from 39 countries were taking part in the flotilla.

00:50An earlier flotilla that left Spain in April saw more than 100 pro-Palestinian activists

00:56taken to Crete, while two others were detained in Israel.

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