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Members of the U.S.-based Free Gaza group, which left Cyprus on Friday by boat, sit with Palestinian women holding pictures of their relatives held in Israeli jails, during a protest calling for the release Palestinian prisoners, at the International Red Cross in Gaza City, Monday, Aug. 25, 2008. Two boats carrying dozens of international activists sailed into the Gaza Strip in defiance of an Israeli blockade on Saturday. Israel on Monday freed nearly 200 jailed Palestinians, including a militant mastermind from the 1970s who became the Jewish state's longest serving Palestinian prisoner, in a goodwill gesture made just hours before U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was to begin her latest peace mission to the region. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)