Six hundred ship passengers, most of them Israelis, on the way to Israel, were narrowly saved from entering a port in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Coast Guard announced today. The passengers included 150 new immigrants on the way to this country.
Coming from a Southern European port on a Turkish ship, the Iskadrun, the captain of the vessel missed the lights of the Haifa port, due to fog, and continued southward. He saw the lights of another port and, thinking he had reached Haifa, was about to enter that harbor.
Meanwhile, the Israeli Coast Guard was searching for the Iskadrun. The Coast Guard made radio contact with the Iskadrun Just in time to prevent its entry into Gaza, guiding it to Haifa.
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