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Asian
aid convoy reaches Gaza Strip
Monday January 03, 2011 03:58:59 PM ,
Agencies
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An aid convoy carrying food and
medical supplies for the besieged Palestinians, as part of an
Asian aid mission, has arrived in the Gaza Strip.
The Asia to Gaza Solidarity Caravan, (Asia 1) entered the coastal
strip through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt on Monday.
Some 105 human rights activists gathered at the crossing. Most of
them flew to Egypt from Syria. And eight activists arrived at the
Egyptian port of El Arish onboard a ship.
Egyptian authorities had prevented Iranian activists with the
convoy from entering Egypt.
The convoy had travelled 7,000 kilometers, but was stuck in
Latikia, in the northwest of Syria, for more than a week awaiting
Egypt's permission.
The aid convoy started its journey in the Indian capital, New
Delhi. It had passed through Iran, Turkey, Lebanon and Syria to
reach Egypt and finally the Gaza Strip.
The activists say they want to display solidarity with the
Palestinian people in their resistance against Israel.
Tel Aviv has been enforcing an all-out land, aerial and naval
blockade on the 1.5 million Palestinians in the enclave since
mid-June 2007.
The embargo persists while Gaza is far from recovering from the
December 2008-January 2009 Israeli war that claimed the lives of
over 1,400 Palestinians, inflicting a damage of above $1.6 billion
on the enclave's economy.
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