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Pro-Palestinian activists aboard a Swedish vessel tried and failed to punch through Israel’s maritime blockade of Gaza this week. Israeli commandos boarded the vessel, searched the ship and brought it to an Israeli port.

The Israeli military called the operation “uneventful.” According to a report, Israel’s Channel 2, one of the activists was zapped with a taser. The foreign activists were detained and are being deported.

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In the scope of Middle East confrontations, it was a minor, though publicized, affair.

Afterwards, Israel’s defense minister Moshe Yaalon said, “there was no aid on board” the activist ship.

Not necessarily so — but pretty close. We checked. You decide.

Members of the Gaza flotilla organization have repeatedly said the vessel Marianne was carrying humanitarian aid for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Asked to provide some evidence of the humanitarian aid, Ann Ighe, a member of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition sent a photograph: The larger cardboard box contains a solar panel, donated by a Swedish magazine, ETC, which also runs an “environmentally friendly electricity company.” The panel was bound for Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City.