Alwaght- Israeli army blocked the path of the all-women humanitarian flotilla bound to break the Tel Aviv imposed siege on Gaza Strip on Friday.
All thirteen women on the board of the boats, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland, were arrested after Israeli Navy diverted the flotilla toward the Ashdod port.
The Zaytouna (Olive) flotilla departed the Spanish port of Barcelona on Wednesday to reach the Gaza Strip which is under siege since the Hamas resistance movement took control in an election in 2007.
"All the boat's passengers have left Israel except a woman who will fly to Oslo this afternoon," Sabin Haddad, a spokeswoman for Israeli interior ministry, said on Friday.
The boat sailing under the flag of “Women for Gaza” was part of a larger flotilla called the Freedom Flotilla Coalition that is campaigning to break the siege.
Gaza, with a population of more than 1.8 million, has been under siege by the Israeli regime since June 2007. The blockade has caused a decline in the standards of living as well as unprecedented levels of unemployment and unrelenting poverty.
Tel Aviv had imposed limits of three nautical miles for fishing in waters off the Gaza shore until August 2014.
