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19 May 2009 Dozens of participants in the
European "Hope" convoy expressed their outrage at the
Egyptian authorities for preventing them from leaving
the hotel they stay in and not facilitating the
arrival of the convoy to the besieged Gaza Strip.
Greek participant Nicholas Kraxtin told Quds Press
news agency on Tuesday that the Egyptian authorities
refused to allow the ship carrying the aid convoy to
unload its cargo at the port of Alexandria and
conditioned that the ship should dock at Port Said
harbor.
He added that because of the ship’s prior commitments,
the convoy organizers sought to hire another vessel,
but the Egyptian authorities imposed new conditions.
The convoy was supposed to head from Port Said harbor
on Tuesday towards the Rafah border crossing after the
participants had already left Cairo for Port Said
city, but the Egyptian authorities delay the arrival
of the convoy through the conditions they come up with
every time.
In another context, the UAE committee for charitable
works in Gaza received on Monday 13 ambulances and
refrigerator trucks for transporting blood and
medicines in addition to a range of medical equipment
and supplies that had arrived through the Rafah
crossing for distribution to Gaza hospitals.
Imad Al-Haddad, the director of the committee’s office
in Gaza, said that the committee in the UAE through
its offices in Britain and Australia donated this
medical aid to Gaza hospitals and would distribute it
in coordination with the health ministry in the Strip.
Haddad noted that this aid comes within a charitable
campaign to support Gaza established under the
directives of UAE president Sheikh Khalifa Al-Nahyan.
In the context of international efforts to support
Gaza, the Irish friendship society for the relief of
Palestinian children handed out cash assistance to a
group of orphans sponsored by the assembly of
charitable institutions in Khan Younis.
The aid was distributed on Tuesday during a meeting
attended by Dr. Saber Al-Safati and his Irish wife,
director of Al-Rahma charity Mohamed Al-Masri and a
representative from the government committee for the
reception of delegations.
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