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A freighter and two smaller ships carrying around 875 tons of aid for the suffering population in the embattled Gaza Strip departed from the Cypriot port of Larnaca on Saturday afternoon, Cypriot radio and the Cyprus Times news portal reported. Israeli inspectors checked the cargo before the freighter Jennifer and the tugboats Open Arms and Ledra Dynamic set off, according to Cypriot government spokesman Giannis Antoniou. One of the two tugs accompanying the cargo ship is towing a platform with relief supplies behind it, meaning that all three ships are travelling very slowly. This platform is…