Europeans plan to break the siege on Gaza using a boat

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[ 20/07/2008 - 10:02 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

The "Free Gaza Movement" has announced on Saturday that it was preparing to sail to the Gaza Strip from Cyprus with the aim to break the two-year old Israeli siege on Gaza Strip using a boat.

In a telephone contact with Dr. Jamal Al-Khudari, the head of the anti-siege popular committee in Gaza, coordinator of the Movement Dr. Paul Larudee confirmed that the vessel would sail from Cyprus to Gaza as scheduled on the 5th August with 45 members, including Richard Falk, the next UN envoy to Palestine, and other European parliamentarians and artists on board with the aim to break the blockade on Gaza.

According to Larudee, the team of the vessel also comprises legal activists of different nationalities rejecting the unjust Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip where 1.5 million Palestinians are living in very harsh conditions.

Five seats in the boat were allocated to journalists and media men, the program organizers, furthermore, revealed.

For his part, Khudari asserted that Palestinian people have the full right to receive their guests who would sail through the Palestinian territorial waters without any intervention either from the Israeli occupation or from anybody else.

In this regard, Khudari called for the construction of a Palestinian harbor in order to break the Israeli siege, and to use all possible means in confronting the comprehensive Israeli closure of the Gaza Strip.

He also called on the Palestinian people inside occupied Palestine and those living in diaspora, and urged all concerned Arab, Muslim, and international groups to increase their anti- Israeli siege activities across the world.

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