Italian peace activist Vittorio Arrigoni

Italian peace activist Vittorio Arrigoni holds up a box of medicine as he celebrates the arrival of 20-metre (65-foot) ship "Dignity" that departed from Cyprus yesterday afternoon to protest against the Israeli sanctions imposed after the Islamist Hamas movement seized the Gaza Strip in June 2007, on October 29, 2008 at the port in Gaza City. The boat carrying 27 pro-Palestinian activists from 13 countries was allowed to dock in Gaza today despite a strict Israeli blockade, in the second such voyage in less than three months. AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD HAMS (Photo credit should read MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images)