GAZA CITY - A message in a bottle cast into the sea by a holidaying British couple on the island of Rhodes has washed up on the blockaded Gaza Strip, the fisherman who found it said Wednesday. Jihad Al-Soltan retrieved the bottle while fishing on Aug. 15. Using the e-mail address supplied, his family contacted the senders of the letter, Bethany Wright and her boyfriend Zac Marriner. They had thrown the bottle into the sea during a romantic holiday on the Greek island two months earlier. "We are currently on holiday in Rhodes and we would love to know how far this bottle got - even if it's just the next beach," the note read. It had traveled a lot further, around 800 kilometers (500 miles), before Al-Soltan retrieved it. "They never expected it to reach Gaza!" he said. - AFP