Read here the official Announcement. Contacdetails for enlisting/participation included | It’s time to end this siege for good. [ 13/08/2011 - 02:28 PM ] LONDON, (PIC)– A pro-Palestinian organization in Britain has announced that the largest ever siege-busting convoy would head to Gaza by the end of 2011. On its official website, Viva Palestina said [...]
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Announcement | It’s time to end this siege for good.
Viva Palestina | Aug 13, 2011 Viva Palestina is returning to Gaza with our sixth major international aid mission to bring an end to the illegal siege. Much has changed for the Palestinian people and the wider region in the 11 months since our last convoy. Dictatorship has fallen in Egypt. Palestine has moved up [...]
Miles of Smiles to send 3 more aid convoys to Gaza
[ 02/08/2011 - 11:52 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Dr. Issam Yousef, the general coordinator of Miles of Smiles 4, said that three new aid convoys would be sent to the Gaza Strip within the coming three months including one later this month. Yousef, who was speaking Monday evening at a meeting between Gazan premier Ismail [...]
Miles for Smiles Arrives in Gaza with Aid
PNN – Palestine News Network – 01.08.11 – 12:53 Gaza-PNN- Humanitarian aid convoy arrived in the Gaza Strip on Sunday evening through the Rafah Border Terminal. The group called, Miles for Smiles, consisted of eight trucks containing medical supplies, medications, milk for infants and cars especially designed for people with disabilities. Thirty-five solidarity [...]
Miles of smiles 4 soon in Gaza
[ 27/07/2011 - 07:38 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Preparations are underway for the fourth convoy of the humanitarian aid Miles of Smiles to the Gaza Strip as organizers and participants started to flock to Cairo over the past 24 hours. The organizers said in a press release on Tuesday that contacts were ongoing with the [...]
Medical aid convoy lands in Gaza
[ 07/07/2011 - 09:36 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– A medical aid convoy sent by the Arab Medical Union has delivered some five tons of aid to the Gaza Strip after landing on Wednesday. The convoy, headed by the AMU emergency committee secretary-general Ibrahim al-Za’faraani, entered through Rafah crossing on the Strip’s border with Egypt. On [...]
Israel fears aid convoys to Gaza by air
[ 03/07/2011 - 09:08 AM ] NAZARETH, (PIC)– Israel has expressed fear of new movements by pro-Palestinians to challenge the Gaza siege by air. Israeli media sources say talks are being held to cope with possible attempts by pro-Palestinians to land and protest at the Israeli Ben Gurion airport or land directly in the Gaza [...]
Gaza-bound aid convoy to depart Greece
PressTV - Mon Jun 27, 2011 9:27AM The Israeli military attacked the Freedom Flotilla in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea on May 31, 2010. (file photo) Hundreds of activists at Greek ports prepare to board Gaza-bound ships, carrying humanitarian aid to the besieged coastal enclave in defiance of the Israeli blockade. Around 350 pro-Palestinian [...]
1st African aid convoy heads for Gaza
PressTV - Mon Jun 27, 2011 7:16AM The first overland African convoy has set out for the impoverished Gaza Strip, carrying humanitarian relief aid to the besieged coastal sliver. The convoy, comprising 21 activists and a dozen vehicles, carries much needed aid that include medical supplies, basic essentials, milk powder, generators and materials to build [...]