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Monday Dec. 27, 2010 7:34 PM (EST+7)
Asian aid ship aims to break Gaza blockade


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RAMALLAH, December 27 (JMCC) - Activists aboard an Asian aid ship, currently docked in Syria, plan to break the Israeli blockade on Gaza. They bring with them over $1 million in supplies.

According to press reports, the Asia 1 ship carrying around 160 activists, is waiting for Egyptian government approval to sail to the port of El Arish and from there to then sail to Gaza. The ship is reportedly carrying $1 million worth of supplies including a large medical shipment donated by the Iranian Red Crescent.

The group met last week with Hamas’s Damascus-based leader Khaled Mashal and was told that the Palestinians were “fighting for a real state without any occupation and with Jerusalem as its capital.”

The ship is the first vessel to set sail from Asia bound for the Gaza Strip. Among its passengers are citizens reportedly from India, Jordan, Iran, Indonesia, Lebanon, Pakistan, Turkey, Bahrain, Malaysia, Japan and Bangladesh.

Read more at the Jerusalem Post…
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