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| Galloway Gaza convoy leaves Syria |
| 2010-01-04 |
| [Ma'an] A British-led aid convoy bound for the Gaza Strip is on its way to the Egyptian port of Al-Arish after departing Syria by boat, organizers said on Sunday. The Viva Palestina convoy, led in part by firebrand British MP George Galloway, loaded 210 truckloads of food and medical supplies onto a ferry in the Syrian port of Latakia. The group, which set out from London nearly a month ago and drove through Turkey and Syria, spent five days stranded in Jordan after Egypt denied it permission to travel to the Red Sea port of Nuweiba, insisting that aid convoys should transit through the port of Al-Arish, on the Mediterranean. The convoy had originally planned to enter Gaza on 27 December, the one-year anniversary of Israel's war on the Gaza Strip which left more than 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis dead. In a message released on an affiliated website on Sunday, Viva Palestina's organizers said they received verbal assurances from Egypt that they would be allowed to dock in Al-Arish on Monday. Another group, the Gaza Freedom March, also faced opposition from Egyptian authorities with a plan to bring 1,300 international demonstrators to the Strip for a march against the Israeli-led blockade. Fewer than 100 from the group were allowed into Gaza, the rest stranded in Cairo. Galloway led two other successful convoys to Gaza in 2009. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 We can but hope that the Egyptians have a variation of Montezuma's Revenge that laughs at modern pharmaceuticals, and can only be treated by eating copious amounts of camel dung. When Mr. Wife was doing a factory start-up in that part of the world, he alternated food poisoning and dysentery until he learnt not to eat meat or washed fruit, but to stick to bread, lentils, and peeling his own citrus. The only cure he knew was Immodium, which neatly converted the diarrhea problem to one of complete constipation... but did nothing for the vomiting. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-01-04 14:50 |
| #3 Brits should re-open "Bedlam" for George. And whats with this operational name "Viva Palestina"? Are these loonies plotting an overthrow of the "reconquista"? |
| Posted by: borgboy 2010-01-04 13:24 |
| #2 We can but hope that the Egyptians have a variation of Montezuma's Revenge that laughs at modern pharmaceuticals, and can only be treated by eating copious amounts of camel dung. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-01-04 08:03 |
| #1 The Viva Palestina convoy, led in part by firebrand British MP George Galloway .... The enemy right there in the open and not a Predator in sight. :( |
| Posted by: AzCat 2010-01-04 01:10 |