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Former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, standing beside a damaged yacht, Tuesday accused the Israeli navy of ramming the vessel to halt the delivery of medical supplies to the embattled Gaza Strip. Our mission was a peaceful mission, McKinney told CNN after she and 15 others aboard the boat made it safely to the harbor in the Lebanese seaport of Tyre. McKinney, the recent Green Party candidate for US president and frequent center of controversy, is the most prominent political figure to join the relief voyages sponsored by the Free Gaza Movement. McKinney was slated to travel by car to Beirut where she was expected to conducted media interviews and meet with Lebanese government officials, said Paul Larudee, a co-founder of the California-based Free Gaza group. Larudee said the organization was determined to continue the relief mission, the sixth such trip to Gaza and the first to be interrupted. Were going to get it repaired, Larudee said of the Dignity, the cabin cruiser which he said sustained damage to the hull, the bridge and the engine room. A US State Department spokesman said Tuesday that US diplomats had issued no protests to Israeli authorities. When you enter a zone of conflict, then you have to realize that its very, very dangerous, the spokesman told reporters. Later, State Department spokesman Noel Clay said there were no injuries, that were aware of at the moment and that to my knowledge, consular officials have not been in contact with the American …