GAZA, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- A small boat carrying 11 pro-Palestinian activists from European countries docked at a port in Gaza City on Tuesday afternoon, marking the fourth such voyage to protest against the Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip.

    The boat, with medical supplies aboard for the Palestinians in Gaza, set off two days ago from the Larnaka Port in Cyprus, and was received at the Fisherman Port by a Palestinian organization called Popular Committee For Challenging The Siege.

    The arrival of the boat marked the fourth ship that has successfully sailed to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, which has been put under a tight Israeli blockade for more than one year.

    According to the activists boarding the boat, the Israeli navy did not prevent them from entering the coastal enclave.

    In recent months, three other boats from Qatar, Libya and Europe were denied entry to the coastal strip by Israel.

    The Jewish state has sealed off the Gaza Strip, allowing only limited humanitarian aid into the impoverished territory, since the Islamic Hamas movement, which is sworn to the destruction of Israel, took over control of the enclave in June 2007.