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Blockade-busting voyages to Gaza planned from Qatar, Israel, Yemen, Cyprus, Jordan
Gaza – Ma’an – A series of ships sailing Qatar, Israel, Yemen, and Cyprus, and Jordan will challenge the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip over the next two months, said Member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) Jamal Al-Khudari on Tuesday.
On Friday a ship sailing from Qatar is scheduled to make landfall in Gaza. On Saturday, a ship sailing from Haifa, in northern Israel will reach Gaza carrying five tons of humanitarian aid, including medicine, said Al-Khudari, who is the leader of the Popular Committee Against the Siege of Gaza.
The ships will further test Israel’s willingness to block shipments of vital goods to the coastal territory. After allowing a group of international and Palestinian activists to sail to Gaza three times since August, Israel gunboats forced a Libyan ship carrying 3,000 tons of aid to turn back on Tuesday.
On 18 December the Islamic Parliamentary Union will dispatch a ship from Larnaca, Cyprus. Two days later, Jordanian activists will send a boat from the Red Sea port of Aqaba.
A Yemeni vessel will set sail in January.
Al-Khudari said, in a statement that the Israeli blockade of Gaza has left 70% Gaza residents without electricity.
After nearly a year and a half of closure, Israel imposed a total blockade on Gaza on 4 November, preventing deliveries of aid by land, sea, and air. The territory’s sole power plant has frequently shut down, and the United Nations was forced to suspend a food aid program that feeds 750,000 Palestinians.
embarrassed in USA said,
December 4, 2008 at 5:31 pm
I HAVE BEEN WRITING MY SENATORS AND CONGRESS REP. EVERTIME ISRAEL TURNS THE BOATS BACK.
ANY ONE OF MY SEANTORS IS JEWISH.
I DONT HOLD ANYTHING BACK EITHER.
WORDS LIKE “WAR CRIMES” AND “CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY” ARE USED FREQUENTLY.
I AM TIRED OF THIS SHIT!
WE HELPED FREE SOUTH AFRIKA.
WE HELPED FREE IRELAND.
WE ARE NOW HELPING FREE PALESTINE.
robertsgt40 said,
December 4, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Memo to Godless Isreal: God is watching
Tim said,
December 4, 2008 at 10:08 pm
I only hope that the ships delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza are equipped with numerous cameras to record and show the world via the internet the cowardly war crimes of that international terrorist rathole. With any luck that will bring about the demise of that cancer of earth that much quicker.
Ted said,
December 4, 2008 at 11:01 pm
I write my Congressman and Senators about the crimes of Israel but they never respond.
The U.S. should just change their flag from the stars and strips to the star of david.
In the end, Israel will get what is due to them.
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kamal said,
December 5, 2008 at 12:04 am
Thats really bad. With Israelis like this im not surprised.
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kim smith said,
December 5, 2008 at 1:39 am
Shameless! Those Nazi Zionist thugs create the myth of a “holocaust” so they can “justify” the genocide of an entire culture. Wake up America. Christians are next! Nazi Israel is the kind of “friend” who will sell you out, murder your mother and children and tell you an “Arab” did it. They are the kind of “friend” who will pillage your medicine cabinet when they “visit” They are the kind of “friend” who will break your bank and rob you blind. They are the kind of “friend” who will destroy your livelihood and blame it on the “Arabs”. They are the kind of “friend” who will bomb your child’s school and blame a “Muslim”. They are the kind of “friend” who attacked the USS Liberty in 1967 in the anticipation of blaming Egypt for the dirty deed. They are the kind of “friend” who carried out the commando raid in Mumbai to keep the Americans fearful of those “Muslim terrorists”. They are the kind of “friend” who are literally starving Palestinian CHILDREN to death for “national security”. They are the kind of “friend” I WOULD KILL IN A NEW YOUR MINUTE!
DavidG. said,
December 5, 2008 at 6:51 am
Israel is not without a God! He is a tyrannical God, a cold God, a judgmental God, a punitive God.
His children are the same.
Donna said,
December 5, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Every time that I see a product made in Israel, I make a point of emailing the company and telling them WHY I won’t be buying their product.
Here’s the last company that I emailed. http://www.kanecarpet.com/