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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Aid convoy breaks Israeli blockade of Gaza
2010-01-07
The Viva Palestina aid convoy entered Gaza Wednesday, after it received the approval of Egyptian authorities to bring into the besieged, impoverished coastal sliver several tons of humanitarian supplies.
Several tons won't last long.
The activists entered Gaza through Rafah border crossing. More than 500 international activists accompany the convoy organized by the British-based group Viva Palestina, a Press TV correspondent reported.

Fifty-nine vehicles were not allowed into the strip but the supplies were unloaded and taken through by the activists.
Sweating like the Hebrew slaves of old, under the hot Egyptian sun.
The Egyptian approval came after activists and security forces clashed earlier in the day when Cairo refused to allow part the aid convoy to pass through its land to the Hamas-ruled territory.

More than 55 activists and over a dozen members of the security forces were injured in the clashes. Some sixty convoy-members were also arrested.

Gaza has been under a tight Israeli blockade since June 2007 when the democratically elected Hamas took control of the area. Egypt has come under fire from Arab and Muslim groups
And Turks!
for cooperating with Israel.

British lawmaker George Galloway, who is accompanying the convoy, said that the activists had been forced to renegotiate with the Egyptian authorities.

"We refused this because it's a breach of the agreement which we reached in Aqaba between the government of Egypt and the Turkish side," he said. "It is completely unconscionable that 25 percent of our convoy should go to Israel and never arrive in Gaza, because nothing that goes to Israel ever arrives in Gaza."
First they refused, then... they didn't.
Egyptian authorities had also refused the convoy entry into the country from the Red Sea, forcing it to change course to a Mediterranean port.
Was there a reason for that, or was it just to be mean?
Posted by:Fred

#5  Since they like Gaza so much, then let them stay there. For at least a few months.
Let them see the Hamas thugs in action with their very own eyes.
Posted by: Mike Hunt   2010-01-07 23:38  

#4  "we brought you potato salad I made a couple weeks ago! Dig in!"
Posted by: Frank G   2010-01-07 18:55  

#3  shouldn't that be
Aid convoy 'breaks' Israeli blockade of Gaza
or maybe
Aid convoy breaks Israeli 'blockade' of Gaza
or possibly even
Aid convoy breaks 'Israeli' blockade of Gaza

i mean, since they had permission, other goods are currently going through, and it was Egypt that was holding up the show?

of course, why let trivial things like facts get in the way of good propaganda.
Posted by: abu do you love   2010-01-07 15:39  

#2  I was so hoping that the Egyptians would at least crack the noggins of both Galloway and William Ayers. I would love to see them portrayed in the movie Midnight Express II: the Egyptian Prison.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2010-01-07 13:29  

#1  Paleo celebrations start.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2010-01-07 03:51  

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