Monday, January 3, 2011

Israel warships following Asian Aid Ship to Gaza - THE MILLI GAZETTE -New Delhi

Mg-mast-head

International

Israel warships following Asian Aid Ship to Gaza

The Milli Gazette
Published Online: Jan 02, 2011
New Delhi (2 January 2011): Two Israeli warships are following the Asian Aid Ship (Salam) to Gaza (Palestine) via Al-Arish (Egypt), according to Feroz Mithiborewala, organiser of the Indian contingent of the Asian Caravan now in Damascus. The aid ship is carrying aid to be delivered to the Egyptian authorities for checking at Al-Arish before delivery to Gaza through the Rafah checkpoint.

Senior Indian journalist Ajit Sahi and three other Indians are on board in addition to Hakim from Azerbaijan, Nur el Din from Malaysia, Mohammad Hossain from Indonesia and Sagaguchi from Japan. They are accompanying the aid while others will fly from Syria to Egypt to join them later at Al-Arish.

According to reports reaching The Milli Gazette from Damascus, Israeli commandos have entered the aid ship by force, inspected the material and interrogated the crew. They left later but two Israeli warships are trailing the ship while an Israeli helicopter is flying overhead. Israeli commandos did not detain anyone according to the caravan twitter handle.

Free Gaza India Asia People's Movement against Israeli Occuption
Ajit Sahi (right), senior journalist from India on the caravan

The Asia2Gaza ship Salam is carrying food, medicine, toys, generators and ambulance vehicles as gift to the people of Gaza Strip as an effort to ease life of its people who are suffering from an illegal Israeli blockade for over two years. The volunteers on the ship may be contacted on satellite phone number 008821621294881.

Free Gaza India Asia People's Movement against Israeli Occupation

Previous reports on the Gaza Asia India Lifeline Caravan:

  1. Humanitarian Aid Sails on Final Leg of its Journey to Gaza, Palestine

    It is interesting that the role of India which is appreciated by leaders of especially the third world countries is from the days of Gandhi and Nehru. People like to avoid mentioning the changing foreign policy of India under the recent regimes, a...

  2. Iranian sentiments overwhelm the Asia to Gaza caravan

    Tehran (15 December 2010): After overcoming the initial obstacles in South Asia, where, first the Pakistani government denied visas to some Indians, then Indian government delayed permission to ...

  3. Kurdish Turkey comes out on streets to welcome Asia-Gaza Caravan

    The first Asia to Gaza solidarity caravan reached Tibriz from Tehran on 13th December, 2010. On the way the people of Zanjan welcomed the caravan and offered lunch. The mayor of Tibriz, Alireza ...

  4. The Road to Gaza is open-II: India to Gaza Peace convoy announced

    The Asian Palestine solidarity process is well underway. We are undertaking & coordinating a convoy from India to Palestine, which will traverse the Asian nations, thus building & uniting...

  5. In solidarity for Palestine, Asian activists announce caravan to Gaza

    If you are from India and want to join the Caravan email asiatogaza.india[#]gmail.com or  call  +91-9911599955In a press conference in New Delhi on 5 October 2010 Asian People...





Reactions

Posted by at
Labels: ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)