Two pro-Palestinian groups launched a campaign on Saturday to raise funds to buy a ship that they hope can set sail from Lebanon for Gaza next week carrying educational supplies and journalists.
The nongovernmental groups "Free Palestine Movement" and "Reporters Without Limits" said they hoped the boats would set off for the blockaded Gaza Strip at the end of next week. It will carry aid, namely educational supplies for Palestinian children as well 50 Arab and foreign journalists and 25 European activists, including some MPs, organisers told a Beirut news conference. "We launch an appeal to all the free people in this world to provide financial contributions to buy a boat," Thaer Ghandour of the Reporters Without Limits said.
By the way, a leader of this sailing is Samir Shark el-Hadj (sp?), the first wife of a senior Hezbollah official (Ali el-Hadj, the former head of internal Hezbollah security forces who was involved in the Hariri assasination). She was just interviewed on El-Alam, Iranian television (I saw the clip), where she threatened Israel and said that if Israeli soldiers try to stop them they will attack.
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An aid ship transporting medical supplies to Gaza is to leave Lebanon...
"We are all independent women who believe in breaking the (Israeli) siege on Gaza," said Samar Hajj, who is coordinating the trip...Hajj, whose husband Ali Hajj was one of four generals detained for nearly four years in connection with the 2005 car bombing that killed former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri and 22 others. Ali Hajj, who was domestic security chief, was released from prison in April 2009 after a UN-backed tribunal said there was insufficient evidence against the generals.
Hajj's wife said so far 50 women -- Muslim, Christian and secular -- had signed up for the trip on board the cargo ship "Mariam." Among them were 30 Lebanese and 20 foreigners, including several European nationals.
She said all the logistics for the trip had been handled by the Free Palestine Movement, a non-governmental organisation.
And from MEMRI:
IRGC deputy commander Hossein Salami has said that the IRGC accompanying the Iranian flotilla to Gaza is not on the agenda.
At the same time, Mohammad Ali Nourani, deputy director of the Iranian Association for Defending the Palestinian Nation, one of the flotilla organizers, said that his organization did not want security protection from the regime, and added, "Either we are taken captive and are martyred, or we succeed in breaking the siege on Gaza, so that either way we are victorious."
Source: Mehr, Iran, June 14, 2010
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