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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Clive at Viva Palestina <[email protected]> Date: 21 October 2010 22:51 Subject: [[email protected]] VIVA PALESTINA CONVOY ENTERS GAZA TO JUBILANT CROWDS To: [email protected] 21st October 2010 VIVA PALESTINA CONVOY BREAKS SIEGE AND ENTERS GAZA TO JUBILANT CROWDS The Viva Palestina convoy of almost 150 vehicles, 370 people from 30 different countries and $5 million of aid has entered Gaza. Amidst scenes of jubilation from thousands of Palestinians there to greet the convoy, Kevin Ovenden, the convoy director, expressed his joy at being in Gaza once again. "We have driven more than 3,000 miles to bring this essential aid and to break this illegal siege of Gaza. We have been joined by supporters from Morocco and Algeria and from the Gulf States and Jordan, to make this the biggest convoy ever to break the siege of Gaza. We are absolutely overjoyed to be here and to bring with us the soil from the graves of those who were massacred on the Mavi Marmara which will be used to plant trees as a memorial to their sacrifice." The convoy set out four weeks and five days ago from London. It travelled through France, Italy, Greece, Turkey and Syria. Everywhere the reception was fantastic and the generosity of well-wishers unsurpassed. Towards the end there was a frustrating delay in Syria whilst negotiations at the highest levels were conducted with the Egyptian authorities. In the end it was all worth it as the Egyptian authorities decided to allow passage of the whole convoy, sadly excluding just 17 members of the convoy including George Galloway. The convoy will be handed over in its entirety to the relevant bodies tomorrow and the members of the convoy then expect to leave Gaza and return home in the next 48 hours after celebrations and formal thanks are given. ------------------------------ This email was sent to the subscription only email list [email protected] . You can subscribe or unsubscribe at any time to this email list by visiting http://www.vivapalestina.org/alert.htm . To ensure that your own computer's anti-spam filters do not block these emails please add [email protected] and [email protected] to your email address book. -- *Endorse the Asia to Gaza campaign by visiting http://asiatogaza.net/campaignletter.html and clicking on the "Endorse" button* India Lifeline to Gaza c/o ICR 33-D, 3rd Floor Vijay Mandal Enclave DDA SFS FLATS New Delhi, 110016 *Email*: [email protected] *Website*: http://www.asiatogaza.net/ *Facebook*: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=139593072749000&ref=mf *Phone*: 09911599955; 09820897517; 09711178868; -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
